How to instal polyglot on mac?

Question

When following the instructions I get the following error message:

Failed building wheel for PyICU

One of the dependencies is missing. However the module PyICU cannot be installed with homebrew (i.e. brew install PyICU).

Answer 1

Go in you working folder

cd ~/projects/pythontest

initialize python and the environment

brew install python3.7

pip3 install virtualenv

virtualenv --python=/usr/local/bin/python3 python_env

install all polyglot dependencies

brew install intltool icu4c gettext

brew link icu4c gettext --force

create shorcut for pip3, python3 and polyglot as we will use them a lot

pip3=./python_env/bin/pip3; polyglot=./python_env/bin/polyglot;python3=./python_env/bin/python3;

if you have already installed pyicu it is important to delete it

$pip3 uninstall pyicu

Install pyicu and replace with the good version

ICU_VERSION=64.2 CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/icu4c/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib $pip3 install pyicu

$pip3 install pycld2 morfessor six numpy polyglot

test it

create a filepolytest.py

from polyglot.text import Text

blob = u"""
世界就是一个疯子的囚笼
"""
text = Text(blob)
print(text.words)

And run the file $python3 polytest.py

Answer 2

If your ICU version is >= 60.

To successfully install PyICU (polyglot dependency), follow the instructions from bonna's answer and set the PYICU_CFLAGS environment variable required by the C++ compiler.

export PYICU_CFLAGS=-std=c++11:-DPYICU_VER='"2.0.3"'

See Unable to install pyicu on MacOS

Answer 3

You can use icu4c instead of PyICU.

Follow these steps: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33352241/1053612 (May require installing python between steps 1 and 2, i.e. brew install python).