Python Cannot install module spaCy

Question

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

Answer 1

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.