Spacy installed but not able to import error: unknown locale: UTF-8

[nikhilsharma010]

I installed Spacy and initially I encountered errors with installation but those have been fixed thanks to I looked at earlier queries. Still I when I do import spacy on jupyter I get ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

But in my terminal it shows it is installed

Nikhils-MacBook-Air:~ nikhil$ sudo python -m spacy download en Password: Collecting https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz Downloading https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz (37.4MB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 37.4MB 1.7MB/s Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): en-core-web-sm==2.0.0 from https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz in /anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages

Linking successful
/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/en_core_web_sm -->
/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spacy/data/en

You can now load the model via spacy.load('en')

* Operating System: mac os 10.13.5
* Python Version Used: 3.6
* spaCy Version Used: 2.0.11

[ines]

This should hopefully be easy to resolve – see this section in the troubleshooting guide:

ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

This error can sometimes occur on OSX and is likely related to a still unresolved Python bug. However, it's easy to fix: just add the following to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zshrc and then run source ~/.bash_profile or source ~/.zshrc. Make sure to add both lines for LC_ALL and LANG.

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[nikhilsharma010]

I already did that

Nikhils-MacBook-Air:~ nikhil$ sudo nano ~/.bash_profile Password: Nikhils-MacBook-Air:~ nikhil$ source ~/.bash_profile Nikhils-MacBook-Air:~ nikhil$ cat ~/.zshrc cat: /Users/nikhil/.zshrc: No such file or directory Nikhils-MacBook-Air:~ nikhil$ sudo nano ~/.zshrc Nikhils-MacBook-Air:~ nikhil$ source export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 -bash: export: No such file or directory Nikhils-MacBook-Air:~ nikhil$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Nikhils-MacBook-Air:~ nikhil$ source ~/.zshrc Nikhils-MacBook-Air:~ nikhil$

still I am getting the same error while importing

[ines]

Could you run the locale command in your terminal and share the output?

[nikhilsharma010]

Nikhils-MacBook-Air:~ nikhil$ locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" Nikhils-MacBook-Air:~ nikhil$

[ines]

That all looks correct. Is that the same in Jupyter? Maybe the problem is that your Juypter environment uses different locale settings. You could try the following to check:

import locale
print(locale.getlocale())

[nikhilsharma010]

When I run this in Jupyer notebook

I get the same error.

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ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)

in () 1 import locale ----> 2 print(locale.getlocale()) /anaconda3/lib/python3.6/locale.py in getlocale(category) 579 if category == LC_ALL and ';' in localename: 580 raise TypeError('category LC_ALL is not supported') --> 581 return _parse_localename(localename) 582 583 def setlocale(category, locale=None): /anaconda3/lib/python3.6/locale.py in _parse_localename(localename) 488 elif code == 'C': 489 return None, None --> 490 raise ValueError('unknown locale: %s' % localename) 491 492 def _build_localename(localetuple): ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

[nikhilsharma010]

When I run the same command in my terminal it gives back the following and runs without error

import locale print(locale.getlocale()) ('en_US', 'UTF-8') import spacy nlp = spacy.load('en')

But in Jupyter this isn't working giving the same error

Also I am new to programming and python so may be some of the issues might be easy but i may not be able to figure that out. I think this is an environment issue can you help redirect in the right direction to solve that

[nikhilsharma010]

The issue is solved when I used following command

Nikhils-MacBook-Air:~ nikhil$ sudo conda install -c conda-forge spacy

now if I do import spacy it works fine however

if I write

nlp = spacy.load('en')

it given me Keyerror: 'package'

[ines]

Glad you got the locale thing working! I'm surprised this worked, but maybe conda actually fixed the locale stuff in your environment when you reinstalled spaCy 🙂 I'll answer the other question in #2571.

[yaliagap]

@nikhilsharma010 Thank you for your command script. That's work for me.

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