Python Cannot install module spaCy

I´m new to python and I ran into a problem I can´t solve. I would like to install and use the package spacy in python. Therefore I opened cmd and ran

pip install spacy

While installing the dependecies I get an error message:

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Command ""c:\users\xxx\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\python.exe" -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-6vcdnb_4\numpy\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-jhmti8_8\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-6vcdnb_4\numpy\

but I have no idea what´s the problem...

Does anybody has a solution for this?

I use Windows and python version 3.7.0b4

Solution 1:

You might be using the python 32-bit version which you need to uninstall and you will need to switch to the python 64-bit version.

After switching everything will work fine, just upgrade pip and setuptools before installing.

Solution 2:

Ok, here is a working solution (at least on windows 10 & python3.7):

Go here: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#spacy

Search SpaCy and download the correct wheels for your platform :-

• preshed
• cymem
• murmurhash
• thinc
• spacy

Then you need to install them with pip install [wheel] in the above order.

If this doesn't work, try installing scipy and maybe even numpy from the same site.

Solution 3:

It took me a while to get spaCy installed correctly, I am on Windows and running python 3.6.4. I'll share my installation process in case it helps anyone.

I am using pycharm as my IDE and working from the venv it creates.

I also had similar problems to the OP and managed to get it working outside the venv.

The main issue appeared to be with pip.

First of all, I deleted my pip cache as it appeared to be causing troubles (atleast on my machine). On windows it is located on:

C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Local\pip\cache

Just delete the folder.

Then I had to upadte pip to the latest version for the installation to work,

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Check your pip version (at the time of this comment the latest version is 10.0.1)

python -m pip --version

After this process I managed to get it working by installing it with pip

python -m pip install spacy

Solution 4:

The following two commans should be enough:

pip install -U spacy

python -m spacy download en

Note that on Windows you should execute the commands with 'Run as Administrator' privileges.