Installing spaCy
Let’s get started by installing and setting up spaCy. spaCy is compatible with 64-bit CPython 3.7+ and can run on Unix/Linux, macOS/OS X, and Windows. CPython is a reference implementation of Python in C. If you already have Python running on your system, most probably your CPython modules are fine too – hence, you don’t need to worry about this detail. The newest spaCy releases are always downloadable via pip (https://pypi.org/) and conda (https://conda.io/en/latest/). pip and conda are two of the most popular distribution packages.
It’s always a good idea to create a virtual environment to isolate the independent set of Python packages for each project. On Windows, we can create a virtual environment and install spacy with pip using these commands:
python -m venv .env .env\Scripts\activate pip install -U pip setuptools wheel pip install -U spacy
If your machine has a GPU available, you can install spaCy with GPU support with this...
