Python Cannot install module spaCy

Question

I´m new to python and I ran into a problem I can´t solve. I would like to install and use the package spacy in python. Therefore I opened cmd and ran

pip install spacy

While installing the dependecies I get an error message:

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Command ""c:\users\xxx\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\python.exe" -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-6vcdnb_4\numpy\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-jhmti8_8\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-6vcdnb_4\numpy\

but I have no idea what´s the problem...

Does anybody has a solution for this?

I use Windows and python version 3.7.0b4

Please post the full output. This is not the actual error message. — MegaIng, May 23 '18 at 08:20
If you take a look at rest of the output you see that the problem misn't `spacy`, but `preshed`. — MegaIng, May 23 '18 at 08:32
If the error message is to long then please post it [here](https://pastebin.com/) (And then give the link) — MegaIng, May 23 '18 at 08:38
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/171605/discussion-between-megaing-and-wintermensch). — MegaIng, May 23 '18 at 08:38

score 13 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 26 '21 at 19:57

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You might be using the python 32-bit version which you need to uninstall and you will need to switch to the python 64-bit version.

After switching everything will work fine, just upgrade pip and setuptools before installing.

edited Aug 26 '21 at 19:57

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answered Oct 08 '19 at 09:06

Dr. Milind Kumar Audichya

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score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 24 '20 at 17:42

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Ok, here is a working solution (at least on windows 10 & python3.7):

Go here: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#spacy

Search SpaCy and download the correct wheels for your platform :-

preshed
cymem
murmurhash
thinc
spacy

Then you need to install them with pip install [wheel] in the above order.

If this doesn't work, try installing scipy and maybe even numpy from the same site.

edited Jul 24 '20 at 17:42

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answered May 23 '18 at 09:10

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Everything installed fine till murmurhash. But the same error as in the question while installing thinc, any idea? – eoeo Sep 28 '20 at 05:17

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered May 23 '18 at 11:06

It took me a while to get spaCy installed correctly, I am on Windows and running python 3.6.4. I'll share my installation process in case it helps anyone.

I am using pycharm as my IDE and working from the venv it creates.

I also had similar problems to the OP and managed to get it working outside the venv.

The main issue appeared to be with pip.

First of all, I deleted my pip cache as it appeared to be causing troubles (atleast on my machine). On windows it is located on:

C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Local\pip\cache

Just delete the folder.

Then I had to upadte pip to the latest version for the installation to work,

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Check your pip version (at the time of this comment the latest version is 10.0.1)

python -m pip --version

After this process I managed to get it working by installing it with pip

python -m pip install spacy

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 03 '18 at 21:49

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The following two commans should be enough:

pip install -U spacy

python -m spacy download en

Note that on Windows you should execute the commands with 'Run as Administrator' privileges.

answered Dec 03 '18 at 21:49

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As of spaCy v3.0, shortcuts like 'en' are deprecated. Please use the full pipeline package name 'en_core_web_sm' instead. – amaar Jul 04 '23 at 12:06

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered May 27 '20 at 19:31

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I was using windows10 64bits and python 3.8.2(32bits) and don't work for me. I Uninstalled python 32 bits and installed python 64bits, so it work now!

answered May 27 '20 at 19:31

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 24 '18 at 23:43

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Upgrading the pip and the setuptools generally helps.
Here are 3 steps:

pip install pip -U
pip install setuptools -U
pip install -U spacy

Key is -U which upgrades all packages to the newest available version.

answered Oct 24 '18 at 23:43

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score 1 · Answer 7 · edited Feb 13 '20 at 10:02

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Uninstall Python32 bit and install Python 64 bit..

Worked for me!

edited Feb 13 '20 at 10:02

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answered Feb 13 '20 at 07:40

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Jun 25 '20 at 13:49

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Was able to solve issue by installing Python 3.7 of 64 bit. You can refer https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/issues/4581

answered Jun 25 '20 at 13:49

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score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Nov 14 '20 at 23:25

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It worked after I switched from Python 3.9.0 to 3.8.6

answered Nov 14 '20 at 23:25

Ray

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That is not answer to the question (which, btw., already has an accepted answer): 2 years ago there was no Python 3.9. – Timus Nov 14 '20 at 23:32

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Sep 03 '19 at 15:10

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I experienced absolutely the same problem today.

It turned out that the Python I had installed was 32 bit. Uninstalled it and added 64 bit version. My Windows 10 is 64 bit too. Tried again installing spaCy and it worked.

answered Sep 03 '19 at 15:10

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Jul 18 '20 at 08:51

Cause

It usually happened when your installation accidently stop , some of the data remain in cache which causes the problem .

Note: this type of error can also be occured in other packages.

Solution

Go to that directory

C:\Users\User_Name\AppData\Local\pip\cache
Delete cache file
Then upgrading the pip

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
Install the package you want

python -m pip install spacy

score 0 · Answer 12 · edited Oct 15 '20 at 21:53

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If you are using Python 3.8, I strongly advise you to downgrade the python version to 3.7. I was trying to solve the issue for 5 hours, finally, after changing the eve to 3.7 it worked.

conda create --name chatterbot_example python=3.7

source activate chatterbot_example

pip install chatterbot
pip install chatterbot-corpus

edited Oct 15 '20 at 21:53

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answered Oct 15 '20 at 21:15

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user14298693 · Answer 13 · 2020-10-27T12:25:52.480

I recently had the same issue and unfortunately, these explanations helped progress but did not solve the problem. I have windows 64-bit laptop. Python version is 3.8.5 and 64 bit.

I followed the below steps to install stacy

Uninstall all python installs on my system (32 bit installs will cause issues)
Go to this link to make sure which version of python has all the below packages. All these packages are a pre-req for spacy

Go here: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#spacy

preshed, cymem, murmurhash, thinc, spacy

example: preshed‑3.0.2‑cp38‑cp38‑win_amd64.whl > cp38 meaning 3.8 version. You can go up to the latest version on all these packages and install the same python version.

Install Python 3.8.5 version
run pip3 install spacy

At the time of this writing python 3.8 is the max that you can install spacy on.

For me the issue was I was trying to install spacy on python 3.9 version and downgrading to 3.8.6 fixed the issue.

Note: I spent almost 4 hours to fix this and this is the only page that has almost all the options that you will need to fix the issues.

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Jan 08 '21 at 16:48

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I also had the same issue on Ubuntu, finally followed this guide.

On Ubuntu(python v3.7.9),

pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
pip install -U spacy
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

Hope this helps you save time.

answered Jan 08 '21 at 16:48

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score 0 · Answer 15 · edited Jan 04 '22 at 23:09

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I had to delete the cache folder first.

Go to C:\Users\XYZ\AppData\Local\pip and then delete the cache folder
Then upgrade your pip
```
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
```
now install spacy
```
pip install spacy
```

edited Jan 04 '22 at 23:09

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answered Jan 04 '22 at 19:53

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dataninsight · Answer 16 · 2023-01-24T07:39:36.940

pip install nltk

# all package installation attempt would install dependencies first
# resulting not compatible thinc, wasabi, srsly to be installed before completly 
# uninstalling spacy dependency pacakage if any 

pip uninstall srsly
pip uninstall thinc
pip uninstall wasabi    

# install wheel
pip install -U pip setuptools wheel

# upgrade python pip
python -m pip install --upgrade pip

# installing spacy for resume parser needs to be above 2.1.4 closer to this version better 
# to install exactly 2.1.4 version of spacy use
pip install spacy==2.1.4

# below code installs any spacy version above 2.1.4
pip3 install spacy>=2.1.4

# once spacy is installed check if wasabi, thinc and srsly is installed
# installing en-core-web-sm from spacy
pip install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.3.1/en_core_web_sm-2.3.1.tar.gz

# check for spacy version installed using either of the following
pip show spacy
python -m spacy info
python -m spacy validate

# to get all installed pacakages 
pip freeze

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