Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/develop' into ewn

Author: ekaf

AUTHORS.md

@@ -299,10 +299,15 @@
 - Steven Thomas Smith <https://github.com/essandess>
 - Jan Lennartz <https://github.com/Madnex>
 - Tim Sockel <https://github.com/TiMauzi>
+- Ikram Ul Haq <https://github.com/ulhaqi12>
 - Akihiro Yamazaki <https://github.com/zakkie>
 - Ron Urbach <https://github.com/sharpblade4>
 - Vivek Kalyan <https://github.com/vivekkalyan>
 - Tom Strange https://github.com/strangetom
+- Samer Masterson <https://github.com/samertm>
+- William LaCroix <https://github.com/WilliamPLaCroix>
+- Peter de Blanc <https://github.com/pdeblanc>
+- Jose Cols <https://github.com/josecols>
 
 ## Others whose work we've taken and included in NLTK, but who didn't directly contribute it:
 

Makefile

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Natural Language Toolkit: source Makefile
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2001-2024 NLTK Project
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2025 NLTK Project
 # Author: Steven Bird <[email protected]>
 #	 Edward Loper <[email protected]>
 # URL: <https://www.nltk.org/>

README.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ If you publish work that uses NLTK, please cite the NLTK book, as follows:
 
 ## Copyright
 
-Copyright (C) 2001-2024 NLTK Project
+Copyright (C) 2001-2025 NLTK Project
 
 For license information, see [LICENSE.txt](LICENSE.txt).
 

RELEASE-HOWTO.txt

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Building an NLTK distribution
 
 3. Build Documentation
    - Check the copyright year is correct and update if necessary
-     e.g. ./tools/global_replace.py 2001-2022 2001-2024
+     e.g. ./tools/global_replace.py 2001-2022 2001-2025
      check web/conf.py copyright line
    - Check that installation instructions are up-to-date
      (including the range of Python versions that are supported)

nltk/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2001-2024 NLTK Project
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2025 NLTK Project
 # Authors: Steven Bird <[email protected]>
 #          Edward Loper <[email protected]>
 # URL: <https://www.nltk.org/>
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 """
 
 import os
+import importlib
 
 # //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 # Metadata
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@
 
 # Copyright notice
 __copyright__ = """\
-Copyright (C) 2001-2024 NLTK Project.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2025 NLTK Project.
 
 Distributed and Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0,
 which is included by reference.
@@ -169,7 +170,6 @@ def _fake_Popen(*args, **kwargs):
 toolbox = lazyimport.LazyModule("toolbox", locals(), globals())
 
 # Optional loading
-
 try:
     import numpy
 except ImportError:
@@ -179,11 +179,10 @@ def _fake_Popen(*args, **kwargs):
 
 from nltk.downloader import download, download_shell
 
-try:
-    import tkinter
-except ImportError:
-    pass
-else:
+# Check if tkinter exists without importing it to avoid crashes after
+# forks on macOS. Only nltk.app, nltk.draw, and demo modules should
+# have top-level tkinter imports. See #2949 for more details.
+if importlib.util.find_spec("tkinter"):
     try:
         from nltk.downloader import download_gui
     except RuntimeError as e:

nltk/app/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Natural Language Toolkit: Applications package
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2001-2024 NLTK Project
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2025 NLTK Project
 # Author: Edward Loper <[email protected]>
 #         Steven Bird <[email protected]>
 # URL: <https://www.nltk.org/>

nltk/app/chartparser_app.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Natural Language Toolkit: Chart Parser Application
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2001-2024 NLTK Project
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2025 NLTK Project
 # Author: Edward Loper <[email protected]>
 #         Jean Mark Gawron <[email protected]>
 #         Steven Bird <[email protected]>

nltk/app/chunkparser_app.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Natural Language Toolkit: Regexp Chunk Parser Application
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2001-2024 NLTK Project
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2025 NLTK Project
 # Author: Edward Loper <[email protected]>
 # URL: <https://www.nltk.org/>
 # For license information, see LICENSE.TXT

nltk/app/collocations_app.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Natural Language Toolkit: Collocations Application
 # Much of the GUI code is imported from concordance.py; We intend to merge these tools together
-# Copyright (C) 2001-2024 NLTK Project
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2025 NLTK Project
 # Author: Sumukh Ghodke <[email protected]>
 # URL: <https://www.nltk.org/>
 # For license information, see LICENSE.TXT

nltk/app/concordance_app.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Natural Language Toolkit: Concordance Application
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2001-2024 NLTK Project
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2025 NLTK Project
 # Author: Sumukh Ghodke <[email protected]>
 # URL: <https://www.nltk.org/>
 # For license information, see LICENSE.TXT