English language model throws error. Is there a dependency on a specific version of spacy?

[nikhilkmr300]

The predict_next_words function throws the following error with English:

self.tok = spacy.blank(lang, disable=["parser","tagger","ner"])
TypeError: blank() got an unexpected keyword argument 'disable'

I also tried using the model directly by running predict on the pretrained LanguageLearner that iNLTK downloads at en/export.pkl, but that throws the same error. Looking at the spacy docs, spacy.blank currently does not have a parameter called disable.

The Hindi language model works fine. I'm guessing the error with English is because, as the docs mention, the model has been taken directly from fastai which probably uses spacy somewhere.

Would appreciate any help. Thanks!

[chiragjn]

You are correct, spacy 3.x removed disable argument on spacy.blank. Downgrading to spacy 2.x should fix it