title: I am having trouble downloading nltk's punkt tokenizer
body: <p>I'm trying to download punkt, but I'm getting the following error...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; import nltk
  &gt;&gt;&gt; nltk.download('punkt')
  &gt;&gt;&gt; [nltk_data] Error loading punkt: &lt;urlopen error [SSL] unknown error
  &gt;&gt;&gt; [nltk_data]     (_ssl.c:590)&gt;
  &gt;&gt;&gt; False
  &gt;&gt;&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>can someone please help I've been trying for days...</p>