title: Configure New NLTK Path
body: <p>I am working with nltk in python. I imported the package and downloaded the additional data just fine, but I want to be able to append a new directory to store nltk_data. </p>
  
  <p>When I tried this fix found at this link (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3522372/how-to-config-nltk-data-directory-from-code">How to config nltk data directory from code?</a>) </p>
  
  <pre><code>nltk.data.path.append("path")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I received this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'append'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong?</p>