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

Steps to load up modules based on different versions of spacy

download the best-matching version of a specific model for your spaCy installation

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
pip install .tar.gz archive from path or URL
pip install /Users/you/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0.tar.gz

or

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

Add to your requirements file or environment yaml file. Theres range of version that one spacy version is comptable with you can view more under https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases

if your not sure running below code

nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm') 

will give off a warning telling what version model will be compatible with your installed spacy verion

enironment.yml example

name: root
channels:
  - defaults
  - conda-forge
  - anaconda
dependencies:
  - python=3.8.3
  - pip
  - spacy=2.3.2
  - scikit-learn=0.23.2
  - pip:
    - https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.3.1/en_core_web_sm-2.3.1.tar.gz#egg=en_core_web_sm