Installing spaCy
Explore the step-by-step process to install spaCy, a powerful Python NLP library, on various platforms like Windows, macOS, and Linux. Understand how to handle common installation issues and ensure your setup runs smoothly for your NLP projects.
Let's get started by installing and setting up spaCy. spaCy is compatible with 64-bit Python 2.7 and 3.5+, and can run on Unix/Linux, macOS/OS X, and Windows. CPython is a reference implementation of Python in C. If Python is already present on the system, most probably the CPython modules are fine too—hence we don't need to worry about this detail. The newest spaCy releases are always downloadable via pip and conda. pip and conda are two of the most popular distribution packages.
pip is the most painless choice as it installs all the dependencies, so let's start with it.
Installing spaCy with pip
We can install spaCy by running the following command in the terminal:
pip install spacy
If we have ...