ImportError: No module named 'spacy.en'

I had to use en_core_web_sm instead of en to make that work. It is complaining about permission problem. The following works perfectly:

import spacy
spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
from spacy.lang.en import English

the en_core_web_sm folder was downloaded outside the spacy folder. I copied it into the spacy/data folder and could run the code as documented in spacy

I used the following command for installing spacy from anaconda distribution.

conda install -c conda-forge spacy

and after that, I was able to download English using the following command without any error.

 python -m spacy download en

I think that there is a confusion in the answers provided.
Correct things mentioned:

• you should import from spacy.lang.en
• spacy.load(‘en’) is indeed a shortcut for loading models.

But:
the file en_core_web_sm is not the same file as the one you import from spacy.lang.en. Actually, the first file is produced from the second after training with spacy train in a dataset and then packaging the result. spacy.lang.en contains the model definition: lemmas lookup table, stop_words, lexical attributes (and more). But that and only that. It is not trained with a dataset so that the dependency graph and other functionalities can work.

I think this should be clear enough when working with spaCy.

Anyone facing this issue on Windows 10 and Anaconda installation , look for your conda python executable using where python on command line before running the script.

In my case, the python on the PATH was

C:UsersXXX.windows-build-toolspython27python.exe

whereas what I needed was from

c:UsersXXXAppDataLocalContinuumanaconda3python.exe

Just add the correct python on the path , or go to this location and run

python -m spacy download en

and it should work.

According to the official website you should do as follow:

python -m spacy download en

However, this surprisingly does NOT work for me.
As you may interst, my env is based on OSX 10.15 with python 3.8, pip 19.3.1

try:

spacy download en

from spacy.lang.en import English
instead of
from spacy.en import English

For me what worked are these steps:

import sys
!{sys.executable} -m pip install spacy
!{sys.executable} -m spacy download en

I run these steps at my spyder console (installed through anaconda)

Anaconda Users

1. If you’re using a conda virtual environment, be sure that its the same version of Python as that in your base environment. To verify this, run python --version in each environment. If not the same, create a new virtual environment with that version of Python (Ex. conda create --name myenv python=x.x.x).

2. Activate the virtual environment (conda activate myenv)

3. conda install -c conda-forge spacy
4. python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

I just ran into this issue, and the above worked for me. This addresses the issue of the download occurring in an area that is not accessible to your current virtual environment.

You should then be able to run the following:

import spacy
nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")

my solutions for en and fr and it

!pip install spacy
!python -m spacy download en
!python -m spacy download it
!python -m spacy download fr

then

import spacy
spacy.load('en')
spacy.load('it')
spacy.load('fr')

pip install spacy
python -m spacy download en

This works for me

For me the below steps worked in my Jupyter:

pip install spacy


import spacy

from spacy.cli import download

print(download('en_core_web_sm'))

I solved it by:

import spacy.cli
spacy.cli.download("en_core_web_lg")

Hope it helps