Spacy assumes data is already downloaded.

[jamorton]

Using spacy on Python 3.5 after installing with pip, I get this error:

>>> import spacy.en
>>> nlp = spacy.en.English()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/spacy/language.py", line 193, in __init__
    vocab = self.default_vocab(data_dir)
  File "env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/spacy/language.py", line 148, in default_vocab
    get_lex_attr=get_lex_attr)
  File "spacy/vocab.pyx", line 56, in spacy.vocab.Vocab.from_dir (spacy/vocab.cpp:3461)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/spacy/en/data/vocab/tag_map.json'

I assumed this was because I needed to download the English data:

(env) ➜ python -m spacy.en.download all
data already installed at /Users/jamorton/dev/bucket/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/spacy/en, overwrite with --force

But spacy thinks it's already there.

I had to run download with --force to get it to work.

[jaksmid]

Same issue, the workaround with --force worked.

[henningpeters]

Meanwhile docs (https://spacy.io/) include --force flag, I think the issue can be closed?

[honnibal]

This should be fixed in the new release, thanks to the revised model download and install system Henning has written.

[lock]

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