#. Open ``Finder>Applications>Utilities>Terminal`` and type ``python -V`` to find out what version of Python is installed
#. Install Setuptools: Download the corresponding version of Setuptools from
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools (scroll to the bottom, and pick the filename that contains the right version number and which has the extension .egg). Install it by typing ``sudo sh Downloads/setuptools-...egg``, giving the location of the downloaded file.
#. Install Pip: run ``sudo easy_install pip``
#. Install Numpy: run ``sudo pip install numpy --upgrade``
#. Install NLTK: run ``sudo pip install nltk --upgrade``
#. Test installation: run ``python`` then type ``import nltk``
Windows
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These instructions assume that you do not already have Python installed on your machine.
If you do, you can skip to the final step and just install NLTK.