en_core_web_sm/md/lg stopped loading today (02/04/2024)

[nmwhitehead]

How to reproduce the behaviour

nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm') or spacy.load('en_core_web_md') or spacy.load('en_core_web_lg')

Your Environment

• Operating System: Windows 10
• Python Version Used: 3.118 and 3.7.3
• spaCy Version Used: 3.7.2 and 2.3.9

When I run basic code of spacy.load('en_core_web_sm'), I get an error message ending with
AttributeError: 'EntryPoints' object has no attribute 'get'
The reason I have multiple versions of both Python and spaCy listed is that upon Googling that error type, I found it to be a version based error type, so I tried fiddling around with the versions.

[svlandeg]

Hi! That feels like an installation error to me - I get that you tried different versions after getting this error, but could you try starting fresh once more, in an isolated environment?

python -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
pip install -U spacy
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

>>> import spacy
>>> nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")

[nmwhitehead]

Thank you! That worked like a charm

[svlandeg]

Happy to hear it!