OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'de_core_news_sm'... only on debug mode

[yennguyenh]

After installing spacy pip3 install -U spacy and downloading python -m spacy download de_core_news_sm, I can run the following code:

import spacy

nlp = spacy.load("de_core_news_sm")

text = "Das ist den Tisch"

my_doc = nlp(text)

token_list = []
for token in my_doc:
    token_list.append(token.text)
print(token_list)

Then I tried to debug the code (on Pycharm) and got the following error:
OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'de_core_news_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a shortcut link, a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

I have also tried the solution from #4577 but did not work!

import de_core_news_sm
nlp = de_core_news_sm.load()

Does anybody know the reason and how to fix it? Thank you in advanced!

• Operating System: MacOS
• Python Version Used: 3.6.8
• spaCy Version Used: 2.1.6
• IDE: Pycharm

[adrianeboyd]

Hi, make sure you're installing spacy and the models in the same virtual environment and with python/pip from the same place in your path. The combination of pip3 and python (vs. python3) makes it look like you might be mixing up virtual environments or python2 vs. python3, which means possibly that spacy and the model aren't installed in the same place. You can check with pip list (or pip3 list) that you can see both spacy and en-core-web-sm.

[yennguyenh]

Sorry for the mistake, I actually also used python3 for the model download! And I did check the pip3 list and they both exist together. So I guess it is not the problem :(

[ines]

If import de_core_news_sm doesn't work, this definitely means that the current environment doesn't have that package installed. So it must have somehow ended up in a different environment. If you want to be extra safe, you can always download and install the models directly via pip and then install them just like any other Python package.

[yennguyenh]

Thank you @ines It turned out that I made a silly mistake setting the wrong environment for Pycharm! So there is nothing wrong with spaCy but my personal mistake!

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