Having trouble trying to install spacy

Question

I'm trying to install spacy and I keep getting this import error.

     File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "E:\Users\Hebert\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\spacy\__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
    from . import pipeline
  File "E:\Users\Hebert\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\spacy\pipeline\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from .pipes import Tagger, DependencyParser, EntityRecognizer, EntityLinker
  File "pipes.pyx", line 1, in init spacy.pipeline.pipes
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing nn_parser:

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? Thanks in advance.

Possiblely relevant: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42863505/dll-load-failed-when-importing-pyqt5 — Brian61354270, Mar 17 '20 at 17:39
@Brian I have installed PyQt5 to see if I would get the same error, and I had no problem importing it. I don't think it's the same issue. — Hebert AG, Mar 17 '20 at 18:01
Could you paste more of the console: the original install command & output etc ? — Sofie VL, Mar 18 '20 at 08:28
Thanks @SofieVL, I already have found a solution. The problem was the Visual Studio Build Tools. — Hebert AG, Mar 18 '20 at 17:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '20 at 17:25

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I have fixed the issue by installing Visual Studio build tools. I thought I had it installed but I only had Visual Studio.

answered Mar 18 '20 at 17:25

Hebert AG

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Thanks for sharing the solution ! – Sofie VL Mar 19 '20 at 10:52

Having trouble trying to install spacy

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