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pythonvisual-c++visual-studio-2015pipspacy
aAnnAa
aAnnAa

Reputation: 145

Spacy Update msvc not found

I'trying to update spacy from version 2.0.18 to version 2.1.1. But every time I try to run the command

pip install spacy-nightly

or

pip install -U spacy==2.1.1

I just get 

error: [WinError 2] System cannot find file specified
msvc
      py_compiler msvc

with a lot of unreadable output. Now I figured it has something to do with the C++ compiler spacy uses and I installed like every package I found at the Microsoft Visual Website but my problem didnt solve itself.

I really would appreciate some help!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1952

Answers (1)

Godfrey Laswai
Godfrey Laswai

Reputation: 56

Most probably, you are on a 64-bit machine using a 32-bit python executable. Remove the 32-bit version of python and Install the 64 bit version of python it will work.

If you where working within a virtualenv, then delete the virtualenv and recreate it again after installing the 64-bit of python.

Upvotes: 3

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