can't install on mac os x, python 2.7

[emirshekari]

When I try to install version 0.4.1 of textacy from terminal
it throws this error:

  Found existing installation: scipy 0.13.0b1
    DEPRECATION: Uninstalling a distutils installed project (scipy) has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. This is due to the fact that uninstalling a distutils project will only partially uninstall the project.
    Uninstalling scipy-0.13.0b1:
   .....
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/pip-flh3nu-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/scipy-0.13.0b1-py2.7.egg-info'

I already have spaCy version 1.9.0
I can install in on my python 3 with no problem but need to work on python 2.
please advise.

[bdewilde]

Hi @emirshekari , that seems... weird. Can you manually uninstall the existing Python 2 scipy, then try installing textacy?

[emirshekari]

so when I do sudo pip uninstall scipy, then it says:

DEPRECATION: Uninstalling a distutils installed project (scipy) has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. This is due to the fact that uninstalling a distutils project will only partially uninstall the project.
Uninstalling scipy-0.13.0b1:
  /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/scipy-0.13.0b1-py2.7.egg-info
Proceed (y/n)? 

after typing y and return, it throws this error:
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/pip-Q4sfIe-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/scipy-0.13.0b1-py2.7.egg-info'

could it be because it is a built-in python and I cannot update it's scipy?

[bdewilde]

This is unfamiliar territory for me, since I've always used homebrew-installed versions of Python, but: I think in most cases, it's better not to modify the system Python at all. Plus, the pre-installed version of scipy is quite old — almost exactly four years, as you can see here).

I know this is a pain, but I'd recommend installing a non-system version of Python 2 then installing textacy and other packages into that. Is that feasible?

[emirshekari]

Thanks for the prompt response. Yet it is feasible and I actually have done this, this time I can install textacy but when I run the usage example of barack obama, then it throws this error:

RuntimeError: module compiled against API version 0xb but this version of numpy is 0xa Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/.../textacy_test.py", line 6, in <module> import textacy File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/textacy/__init__.py", line 19, in <module> from textacy import fileio File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/textacy/fileio/__init__.py", line 3, in <module> from .read import (read_csv, read_json, read_json_lines, read_json_mash, File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/textacy/fileio/read.py", line 11, in <module> from scipy.sparse import csc_matrix, csr_matrix File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/sparse/__init__.py", line 229, in <module> from .csr import * File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/sparse/csr.py", line 15, in <module> from ._sparsetools import csr_tocsc, csr_tobsr, csr_count_blocks, \ ImportError: numpy.core.multiarray failed to import

[bdewilde]

Looks like a version issue with numpy and/or scipy. Which versions do you have installed alongside textacy?

[emirshekari]

I have:
scipy 0.19.1
numpy 1.12.0

[bdewilde]

Google tells me that people have been having this sort of error for years; here's a good example: tensorflow/tensorflow#559

I suspect this is still using your system's numpy, rather than one that you installed into this non-system Python 2. You can try pip install -U numpy and see if that helps. I'm pretty sure this isn't an issue with textacy, though, so I'd like to close this out.

I don't know anything about your dev environment, but FWIW I use pyenv to install and switch between various versions of Python. I highly recommend it: https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv