Upgrade to spacy 3.x

[rosbo]

Hi,

I am an engineer on the Kaggle Notebooks team.

We maintain a Docker image with several data science packages pre-installed for the Kaggle notebooks environment.

We want to upgrade the spacy package to 3.x.

However, fastai has a strict dependency on spacy<3:

fastai/settings.ini

Line 16 in 41e5e9c

requirements = fastcore>=1.3.8,<1.4 torchvision>=0.8.2,<0.9 matplotlib pandas requests pyyaml fastprogress>=0.2.4 pillow>6.0.0 scikit-learn scipy spacy<3

Is it on your radar to add support for spacy 3.x?

Thread about upgrading spacy on the Kaggle docker python image repo: Kaggle/docker-python#986

Thank you

[jph00]

Thanks @rosbo . I'll take a look and see how much work it'll be to support spacy3.

[jph00]

@rosbo this is now done - use fastai 2.3.1 for compat with spacy3

[rosbo]

Thanks @jph00 for the quick turnaround on this.