spacy Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm' on windows 10 and Python 3.5.3 :: Anaconda custom (64-bit)

Question

what is difference between spacy.load(\'en_core_web_sm\') and spacy.load(\'en\')? This link explains different model sizes. But i am still not clea

Answer 1

As for Windows based Anaconda,

1- Open Anaconda Prompt

2- Activate your environment. Ex: active myspacyenv

3- pip install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0.tar.gz

4- python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

5-Open Jupyter Notebook ex: active myspacyenv and then jupyter notebook on Anaconda Promt

import spacy spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

and it will run peacefully!