Spacy import error: cannot import name 'COMBINING_DIACRITICS' from 'spacy.lang.char_classes'

Question

When I try importing the NLP library 'Spacy' using import spacy I'm getting the following error:

ImportError: cannot import name 'COMBINING_DIACRITICS' from 'spacy.lang.char_classes'

Here are my versions:

spacy==3.7.2
spacy-legacy==3.0.12

thinc==8.2.2

pydantic==1.8.2
pydantic_core==2.14.6

python version - 3.9.18

I tried installing, uninstalling Spacy, Upgrading the library & all the other common checks. Where is the issue?

Complete error:

ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
~\AppData\Local\Temp\ipykernel_33180\572880994.py in 
----> 1 import spacy

c:\Users\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spacy\__init__.py in 
     11 from thinc.api import Config, prefer_gpu, require_cpu, require_gpu  # noqa: F401
     12 
---> 13 from . import pipeline  # noqa: F401
     14 from . import util
     15 from .about import __version__  # noqa: F401

c:\Users\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spacy\pipeline\__init__.py in 
----> 1 from .attributeruler import AttributeRuler
      2 from .dep_parser import DependencyParser
      3 from .edit_tree_lemmatizer import EditTreeLemmatizer
      4 from .entity_linker import EntityLinker
      5 from .entityruler import EntityRuler

c:\Users\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spacy\pipeline\attributeruler.py in 
      6 from .. import util
      7 from ..errors import Errors
----> 8 from ..language import Language
      9 from ..matcher import Matcher
     10 from ..scorer import Scorer
...
      3     ALPHA_LOWER,
      4     ALPHA_UPPER,
      5     COMBINING_DIACRITICS,

ImportError: cannot import name 'COMBINING_DIACRITICS' from 'spacy.lang.char_classes' (c:\Users\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spacy\lang\char_classes.py)

Answer 1

Create a new enviroments and install scipy, you can use the following command:

conda create -n myenv

Activate myenv:

conda activate myenv

install scipy check the instalation page:

conda install -c conda-forge spacy

Then you can use scipy.