issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="3645000715" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3468" data-hovercard-type="pull_request" data-hovercard-url="/nltk/nltk/pull/3468/hovercard" href="https://github.com/nltk/nltk/pull/3468">nltk/nltk#3468 This change unfortunately contained a bug that causes false positive security errors when packages are downloaded to a symlinked path, since the new check doesn't use `abspath` vs `realpath` consistently: nltk/nltk#3509 This causes errors like: ``` -----> Downloading NLTK packages: punkt punkt_tab <frozen runpy>:128: RuntimeWarning: 'nltk.downloader' found in sys.modules after import of package 'nltk', but prior to execution of 'nltk.downloader'; this may result in unpredictable behaviour [nltk_data] Downloading package punkt to [nltk_data] /app/.heroku/python/nltk_data... [nltk_data] Unzipping tokenizers/punkt.zip. [nltk_data] Zip Slip blocked: punkt/ Error installing package. Retry? [n/y/e] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.12/site-packages/nltk/downloader.py", line 2631, in <module> rv = downloader.download( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.12/site-packages/nltk/downloader.py", line 773, in download choice = input().strip() ^^^^^^^ EOFError: EOF when reading a line ``` See also: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python/actions/runs/22545824206/job/65308000022#step:5:539 Until upstream fix this regression, we can work around it by always passing the raw path to Python home instead of the symlinked path. (We generally prefer using the symlinked path where possible, to ensure the paths used/displayed match between build time and run time, given the build directory is difference from the run directory.) Longer term I will be deprecating and that removing support for `nltk.txt` since it's a Heroku-proprietary invention that's unnecessary given most users instead either commit the NLTK corpora or use the post_compile hook feature instead. Fixes #2037. GUS-W-21410908.

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Commits on Mar 2, 2026

Work around NLTK v3.9.3 regression