AttributeError: module 'spacy' has no attribute 'blank'

[iamredencio]

I am trying to run the example code on page

But I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "trainNer.py", line 98, in <module>
    plac.call(main)
  File "C:\Users\M63C755\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\plac_core.py", line 328, in call
    cmd, result = parser.consume(arglist)
  File "C:\Users\M63C755\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\plac_core.py", line 207, in consume
    return cmd, self.func(*(args + varargs + extraopts), **kwargs)
  File "trainNer.py", line 41, in main
    nlp = spacy.blank('en')  # create blank Language class
AttributeError: module 'spacy' has no attribute 'blank'``

Can someone tell me what to do?

I did not change anything of the code.

[ines]

Quick update in case anyone else comes across this issue: The most likely explanation is that the code is using the wrong spaCy version, i.e. v1.x (which didn't yet have a .blank attribute) instead of spaCy v2.x.

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