OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

[tanyamole1]

I'm trying to import spacy on Mac OS. I have tried following the guidance on https://spacy.io/usage for pip and condo and https://www.projectpro.io/recipes/install-and-use-spacy-models. I cannot seem to understand what is happening. Could anyone please help explain what I'm doing wrong and how to fix this issue please? This is the error code in Jupyter notebook:

Successfully installed en-core-web-sm-3.5.0
✔ Download and installation successful
You can now load the package via spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
In [3]:

nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

NameError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[3], line 1
----> 1 nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

NameError: name 'spacy' is not defined

[danieldk]

Did you run

import spacy

in the notebook before

nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

If so, could you give all the cells that you run in the notebook?

[tanyamole1]

Yes I did run those the, errors I get are:

OSError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[2], line 1
----> 1 nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

File ~/anaconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spacy/init.py:54, in load(name, vocab, disable, enable, exclude, config)
30 def load(
31 name: Union[str, Path],
32 *,
(...)
37 config: Union[Dict[str, Any], Config] = util.SimpleFrozenDict(),
38 ) -> Language:
39 """Load a spaCy model from an installed package or a local path.
40
41 name (str): Package name or model path.
(...)
52 RETURNS (Language): The loaded nlp object.
53 """
---> 54 return util.load_model(
55 name,
56 vocab=vocab,
57 disable=disable,
58 enable=enable,
59 exclude=exclude,
60 config=config,
61 )

File ~/anaconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spacy/util.py:449, in load_model(name, vocab, disable, enable, exclude, config)
447 if name in OLD_MODEL_SHORTCUTS:
448 raise IOError(Errors.E941.format(name=name, full=OLD_MODEL_SHORTCUTS[name])) # type: ignore[index]
--> 449 raise IOError(Errors.E050.format(name=name))

OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

It seems to be working now, I tried so many different ways to fix this I don't know which worked! Thank you for your offer of help

[danieldk]

This means that the en_core_web_sm model is not downloaded in the environment that you are using spaCy in.

[tanyamole1]

Can you provide me with the steps to resolve this please? VS Code is giving this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/tanyamole/example.py", line 23, in
import spaCy #This statement should work if you have spaCy installed
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'spaCy'

My terminal shows this:
============================== Info about spaCy ==============================

spaCy version 3.5.3
Location /Users/tanyamole/anaconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spacy
Platform macOS-13.1-arm64-arm-64bit
Python version 3.10.9
Pipelines en_core_web_sm (3.5.0)

[danieldk]

Note that the module name is spacy, not spaCy, so you need to

import spacy

[tanyamole1]

Perhaps as I have now installed home-brew?

[tanyamole1]

I am wrong spacy isn't working in Jupyter notebook or VS Code. error for VS code is:
(base) tanyamole@Tanyas-iMac spacy_venv % /usr/bin/python3 /Users/tanyamole/Desktop/example.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/tanyamole/Desktop/example.py", line 23, in
import spacy #This statement should work if you have spaCy installed
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'spacy'