Downloading model error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'spacy.symbols'

[ojo4f3]

When following the README.md guide, IF the repo is cloned locally and the virtual environment is set up in the spacy folder, it will fail to download a model. I have been able to download a model through my IDE and at the CLI, but not if I am in the same directory as the repo.

The error is: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'spacy.symbols'. Below are the steps used once the repo was cloned, the error message, and stack trace.

There was an issued open for the same error it appears that was not resolved: #12847.

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Windows

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(.env) colto@TIMMY C:\Users\colto\Documents\GitHub\test_folder\spacy>python -m pip install --upgrade pip
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(.env) colto@TIMMY C:\Users\colto\Documents\GitHub\test_folder\spacy>pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
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(.env) colto@TIMMY C:\Users\colto\Documents\GitHub\test_folder\spacy>pip install -U spacy
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certifi, catalogue, annotated-types, wasabi, tqdm, srsly, requests, pydantic-core, preshed, jinja2, click
, blis, typer, pydantic, confection, weasel, thinc, spacy
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(.env) colto@TIMMY C:\Users\colto\Documents\GitHub\test_folder\spacy>python -m spacy download en_core_web
_sm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 189, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 148, in _get_module_details
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 112, in _get_module_details
  File "C:\Users\colto\Documents\GitHub\test_folder\spacy\spacy\__init__.py", line 13, in <module>       
    from . import pipeline  # noqa: F401
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\colto\Documents\GitHub\test_folder\spacy\spacy\pipeline\__init__.py", line 1, in <module
>
    from .attributeruler import AttributeRuler
  File "C:\Users\colto\Documents\GitHub\test_folder\spacy\spacy\pipeline\attributeruler.py", line 6, in <
module>
    from .. import util
  File "C:\Users\colto\Documents\GitHub\test_folder\spacy\spacy\util.py", line 75, in <module>
    from .symbols import ORTH
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'spacy.symbols'

Linux

colton@tano:~/GitHub$ git clone https://github.com/explosion/spacy.git
Cloning into 'spacy'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 111868, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (667/667), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (363/363), done.
remote: Total 111868 (delta 361), reused 558 (delta 292), pack-reused 111201
Receiving objects: 100% (111868/111868), 197.96 MiB | 19.63 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (84450/84450), done.

colton@tano:~/GitHub$ cd spacy/

colton@tano:~/GitHub/spacy$ python3 -m venv .env

colton@tano:~/GitHub/spacy$ source .env/bin/activate
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colton@tano:~/GitHub/spacy$ pip install -U spacy
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Installing collected packages: cymem, wasabi, urllib3, typing-extensions, tqdm, spacy-loggers, spacy-legacy, smart-open, packaging, numpy, murmurhash, MarkupSafe, langcodes, idna, click, charset-normalizer, certifi, catalogue, annotated-types, typer, srsly, requests, pydantic-core, preshed, jinja2, cloudpathlib, blis, pydantic, confection, weasel, thinc, spacy
Successfully installed MarkupSafe-2.1.3 annotated-types-0.6.0 blis-0.7.11 catalogue-2.0.10 certifi-2023.11.17 charset-normalizer-3.3.2 click-8.1.7 cloudpathlib-0.16.0 confection-0.1.4 cymem-2.0.8 idna-3.6 jinja2-3.1.2 langcodes-3.3.0 murmurhash-1.0.10 numpy-1.26.2 packaging-23.2 preshed-3.0.9 pydantic-2.5.2 pydantic-core-2.14.5 requests-2.31.0 smart-open-6.4.0 spacy-3.7.2 spacy-legacy-3.0.12 spacy-loggers-1.0.5 srsly-2.4.8 thinc-8.2.1 tqdm-4.66.1 typer-0.9.0 typing-extensions-4.8.0 urllib3-2.1.0 wasabi-1.1.2 weasel-0.3.4
(.env) 
colton@tano:~/GitHub/spacy$ python3 -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 187, in _run_module_as_main
    mod_name, mod_spec, code = _get_module_details(mod_name, _Error)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 146, in _get_module_details
    return _get_module_details(pkg_main_name, error)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 110, in _get_module_details
    __import__(pkg_name)
  File "/home/colton/GitHub/spacy/spacy/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
    from . import pipeline  # noqa: F401
  File "/home/colton/GitHub/spacy/spacy/pipeline/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .attributeruler import AttributeRuler
  File "/home/colton/GitHub/spacy/spacy/pipeline/attributeruler.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .. import util
  File "/home/colton/GitHub/spacy/spacy/util.py", line 75, in <module>
    from .symbols import ORTH
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'spacy.symbols'

If the repo is not cloned locally and the virtual environment set up inside spacy the model download and set up are flawless on both machines I attempted this on.

My Environment

spaCy version: 3.7.2
Platform 1: Windows 10 Home OS build: 19045.3570 64 bit (Python version: 3.11.5)
Platform 2: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS "jammy" 64 bit (Python version: 3.10.12)
Pipeline: attempted to use en_core_web_sm

Colton

[adrianeboyd]

The issue isn't where the venv is, but the contents of your working directory. If you have a clone of the repo, python will first try to import spacy from the directory spacy/ instead of from the venv. And if you don't have an editable install in spacy/, then spacy/ is missing the compiled cython modules and the import fails.

Editable installs are only recommended if you're doing active development on spacy itself (https://spacy.io/usage/#source), so the easiest solution is to use a different working directory than the spacy repo directory.

[ojo4f3]

Hi Adriane. Thanks for the clarification!