Technical requirements

Throughout this book, we will use Poetry to manage the Python package installations. You can use the latest version of Poetry since it conserves the previous versions’ functionality. Once you install Poetry, managing which packages to install will be very easy. We will be using Python 3.9 throughout the book. You will also need to have Jupyter installed in order to run the notebooks.

Note

You may try to use Google Colab in order to run the notebooks but you will need to tweak the code to make it work with Colab.

Follow these installation steps:

1. Install Git: https://github.com/git-guides/install-git.
2. Install Poetry: https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation.
3. Install Jupyter: https://jupyter.org/install.
4. Clone the GitHub repository that contains all the code from this book (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-Natural-Language-Processing-Cookbook-Second-Edition) by issuing the following command in the terminal:

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