Import error with spacy: "No module named en"

Question

I'm having trouble using the Python spaCy library. It seems to be installed correctly but at

from spacy.en import English

I get the following import error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "spacy.py", line 1, in <module>
    from spacy.en import English
  File "/home/user/CmdData/spacy.py", line 1, in <module>
    from spacy.en import English
ImportError: No module named en

I'm not very familiar with Python but that's the standard import I saw online, and the library is installed:

$ pip list | grep spacy
spacy (0.99)

EDIT I tested renaming the file, but that's not the problem. I also get the same error when doing:

$ python -m spacy.en.download --force all
/usr/bin/python: No module named en

(The command is supposed to download some models)

score 18 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 15 '17 at 10:03

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For windows, open cmd with admin right. Then,

python -m spacy download en

You should see the shell prompt stating.

You can now load the model via spacy.load('en')

answered Nov 15 '17 at 10:03

Wong Tat Yau

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This is the only thing that worked for me (on Linux as well) – radicand Nov 30 '17 at 18:34

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '16 at 18:36

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You are facing this error because you named your own file spacy.py. Rename your file, and everything should work.

answered Jan 17 '16 at 18:36

Burhan Khalid

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Do you have a `spacy.pyc` file in the same directory form where you are running the command? If so, delete it. – Burhan Khalid Jan 17 '16 at 18:38
@TheCodingMonk Can I follow up and ask how did you solve the problem? I had the same problem but don't understand the conversations above. Thanks ! – yuqli Nov 21 '17 at 20:53

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 20 '17 at 14:12

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I had the same issue, and the problem was the folder where the module 'en' was stored (spacy/lang/en).

Typing:

from spacy.lang.en import English

fixed the issue.

This post was helpful in figuring this out.

answered Nov 20 '17 at 14:12

Bruno Caprettini

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I was looking for the new location for stopwords in Spacy and your post was helpful. from spacy.lang.en import STOP_WORDS as STOPWORDS – Nic Scozzaro Feb 25 '18 at 18:58

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 20 '16 at 15:18

It is possible that the version of Python at /usr/bin/python is not the one that has spacy installed. If so, navigating to the directory where your 'normal' version of Python is before running

python -m spacy.en.download

should fix the problem. (For example, I installed spacy using Anaconda and had to navigate to C:\Anaconda2\ first.)

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 23 '19 at 02:02

SpaCy has various models depending on the language of your choice (even contains a multi-language model), so you can have a look at this link to have a better idea on which might suit your needs.

You could also find the correct installation command here. For example, for small version model for English Language:

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

Hope it helps!

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 24 '20 at 06:44

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This Works!

import spacy
import en_core_web_sm
nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()

answered Feb 24 '20 at 06:44

Harshal SG

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Import error with spacy: "No module named en"

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