SpaCy OSError: Can't find model 'en'

Question

even though I downloaded the model it cannot load it

[jalal@goku entity-sentiment-analysis]$ which python
/scratch/sjn/anaconda/bin/python
[jalal@goku entity-sentiment-analysis]$ sudo python -m spacy download en
[sudo] password for jalal: 
Collecting https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz
  Downloading https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz (37.4MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 37.4MB 9.4MB/s 
Installing collected packages: en-core-web-sm
  Running setup.py install for en-core-web-sm ... done
Successfully installed en-core-web-sm-2.0.0

    Linking successful
    /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/en_core_web_sm -->
    /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/data/en

    You can now load the model via spacy.load('en')

import spacy 

nlp = spacy.load('en')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
OSError                                   Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-0fcabaab8c3d> in <module>()
      1 import spacy
      2 
----> 3 nlp = spacy.load('en')

/scratch/sjn/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spacy/__init__.py in load(name, **overrides)
     17             "to load. For example:\nnlp = spacy.load('{}')".format(depr_path),
     18             'error')
---> 19     return util.load_model(name, **overrides)
     20 
     21 

/scratch/sjn/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spacy/util.py in load_model(name, **overrides)
    118     elif hasattr(name, 'exists'):  # Path or Path-like to model data
    119         return load_model_from_path(name, **overrides)
--> 120     raise IOError("Can't find model '%s'" % name)
    121 
    122 

OSError: Can't find model 'en'

How should I fix this?

If I don't use sudo for downloading the en model, I get:

Collecting https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz
  Downloading https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz (37.4MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 37.4MB 9.6MB/s ta 0:00:011   62% |████████████████████            | 23.3MB 8.6MB/s eta 0:00:02
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): en-core-web-sm==2.0.0 from https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz in /scratch/sjn/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages
You are using pip version 10.0.0, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

    Error: Couldn't link model to 'en'
    Creating a symlink in spacy/data failed. Make sure you have the required
    permissions and try re-running the command as admin, or use a
    virtualenv. You can still import the model as a module and call its
    load() method, or create the symlink manually.

    /scratch/sjn/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/en_core_web_sm -->
    /scratch/sjn/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spacy/data/en


    Download successful but linking failed
    Creating a shortcut link for 'en' didn't work (maybe you don't have
    admin permissions?), but you can still load the model via its full
    package name:

    nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

Answer 1

By using sudo python ... you install the model for a different python interpreter than your local one. In fact, it says in your log that the spaCy model is installed to /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ instead of /scratch/sjn/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/.

Try running python -m spacy download en and it should install the model to the correct directory.