ImportError: cannot import name util

[userofgithub1]

Hey,
I'm having issues when importing spaCy in python (v2.7) which doesn't appear when using it in ipython (v5.4.1). I used to have spaCy 2.0.11 then I reinstalled 2.0.7 and the issue remains. Some useful info about the spaCy model and python version I have :

Python version     2.7.14         
    Platform           Darwin-15.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
    spaCy version      2.0.7          
    Location           /Users/AMAL/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy
    Models             en_core_web_sm, en_default

Thinc version:

Name: thinc
Version: 6.10.2

Doing import spacy in ipython doesnt cause any problems, using python interpreter in terminal:

python
Python 2.7.14 |Anaconda custom (64-bit)| (default, Oct  5 2017, 02:28:52) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Clang 4.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_401/final)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import spacy
>>> import thinc
>>> import thinc.neural
>>> exit()

However, doing that in python spyder IDE throws this error:

spacy/cli/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .download import download

  File "/Users/AMAL/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/cli/download.py", line 10, in <module>
    from .link import link

  File "/Users/AMAL/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/cli/link.py", line 7, in <module>
    from ..compat import symlink_to, path2str

  File "/Users/AMAL/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/compat.py", line 11, in <module>
    from thinc.neural.util import copy_array

  File "/Users/AMAL/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/thinc/neural/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from ._classes.model import Model

  File "/Users/AMAL/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/thinc/neural/_classes/model.py", line 11, in <module>
    from .. import util

ImportError: cannot import name util

How can I fix this problem? I'm super interested in including spaCy in my work, so any help will be truly appreciated.

Best regards,

[honnibal]

I'm pretty sure you've installed the library into the wrong copy of Python. I don't use the Spyder IDE and can't support it, so I don't know exactly what you might have done wrong. But I doubt the problem is specific to spaCy or Thinc, sorry.