SpaCy package broken

[oersoy1]

Getting an error while trying to load the basic English Model (module)

nlp = spacy.load('en')

Output:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
OSError                                   Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-21-76abff010c5f> in <module>()
----> 1 nlp = spacy.load('en')

/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/spacy/__init__.py in load(name, **overrides)
     13     if depr_path not in (True, False, None):
     14         deprecation_warning(Warnings.W001.format(path=depr_path))
---> 15     return util.load_model(name, **overrides)
     16 
     17 

/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/spacy/util.py in load_model(name, **overrides)
    117     elif hasattr(name, 'exists'):  # Path or Path-like to model data
    118         return load_model_from_path(name, **overrides)
--> 119     raise IOError(Errors.E050.format(name=name))
    120 
    121 

OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'en'. It doesn't seem to be a shortcut link, a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

Seems like

python -m spacy download en

will solve the problem.

See:
explosion/spaCy#1721
or similar github issues

[jdimeo]

Ha! I just ran into this when trying to run Tom's Glyphic model using spacy. The key for me was (1) running with admin privs and (2) actually installing to the right location. For whatever reason, when I did python -m spacy download en it went to the wrong virtualenv and wasn't until I installed it through R did it start working (the R piece is not relevant for this, just to give an example of installing in the wrong location).

[RZachLamberty]

resolved in 2cea0b8