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

I tried all the above answers but could not succeed. Below worked for me :

(Specific to WINDOWS os)

1. Run anaconda command prompt with admin privilege(Important)
2. Then run below commands:

  pip install -U --user spacy    
  python -m spacy download en

3. Try below command for verification:

import spacy
spacy.load('en')

4. It might work for others versions as well: