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There are a few things you can try to resolve the NLTK handling error when downloading the stopwords package:

1. Make sure you are connected to the internet: Ensure that your system is connected to the internet and the connectivity is strong enough to download packages.

2. Update your NLTK library: Try upgrading to the latest version of NLTK by running the following command in your terminal or command prompt:

   pip install --upgrade nltk

3. Use a different server: NLTK's download servers can sometimes be overloaded, causing errors. You can try downloading the package from a different server by specifying it in the nltk.download() function. For example, you can set the server to "http://nltk.github.com/nltk_data/" to download from GitHub servers.

4. Download the package manually: If all else fails, you can try downloading the stopwords package manually using the following steps:

• Go to the NLTK data repository at https://github.com/nltk/nltk_data/tree/gh-pages/packages/corpora/stopwords
• Download the stopwords.zip file
• Extract the contents of stopwords.zip into your NLTK data directory. By default, this should be located at C:/Users/your_username/nltk_data/corpora/stopwords.

After manually downloading the package, you should be able to import and use it in your code as usual.