title: Installing SpaCy English module in Conda
body: <p>While I am able to install spacy in a windows python3 anaconda environment, I cannot get the english module to download</p>
  
  <pre>
     C:\Users\Smith>activate myenvt
  
     (myenvt) C:\Users\Smith> **python -m spacy download en**
  
     Traceback (most recent call last):
  
     File "C:\Users\Smith\Anaconda2\envs\myenvt\lib\runpy.py", line 183, in 
     run_module_as_main
     mod_name, mod_spec, code = _get_module_details(mod_name, _Error)
  
     File "C:\Users\Smith\Anaconda2\envs\myenvt\lib\runpy.py", line 142, in 
     _get_module_details
     return _get_module_details(pkg_main_name, error)
  
     File "C:\Users\Smith\Anaconda2\envs\myenvt\lib\runpy.py", line 109, in 
     _get_module_details
     __import__(pkg_name)
  
     File "C:\Users\Smith\Anaconda2\envs\myenvt\lib\site-
     packages\pip\__init__.py", line 28, in 
     from pip.vcs import git, mercurial, subversion, bazaar  # noqa
  
     File "C:\Users\Smith\Anaconda2\envs\myenvt\lib\site-
     packages\pip\vcs\mercurial.py", line 9, in 
     from pip.download import path_to_url
  
     File "C:\Users\Smith\Anaconda2\envs\myenvt\lib\site-
     packages\pip\download.py", line 34, in 
     from pip.utils.logging import indent_log
  
     File "C:\Users\Smith\Anaconda2\envs\myenvt\lib\site-
     packages\pip\utils\logging.py", line 66, in 
     class ColorizedStreamHandler(logging.StreamHandler):
  
     File "C:\Users\Smith\Anaconda2\envs\myenvt\lib\site-
     packages\pip\utils\logging.py", line 72, in ColorizedStreamHandler
     (logging.ERROR, _color_wrap(colorama.Fore.RED)),
  
     AttributeError: module 'pip._vendor.colorama' has no attribute 'Fore'
  </pre>
  
  <p>I tried to overcome this by following the advice here:
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46383064/spacy-module-install-in-conda">spacy module install in conda</a></p>
  
  <p>1) downloading the english module manually from github and
  2)  linking to the download</p>
  
  <p>However, when I run this code</p>
  
  <pre><code>import spacy
  nlp = spacy.load('en')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the second line gives me the following error</p>
  
  <pre>
  runfile('C:/Users/Smith/DS/nlp1.py', wdir='C:/Users/Smith/DS')
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  
    File "", line 1, in 
      runfile('C:/Users/Smith/DS/nlp1.py', wdir='C:/Users/Smith/DS')
  
    File "C:\Users\Smith\Anaconda2\envs\myenvt\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 710, in runfile
      execfile(filename, namespace)
  
    File "C:\Users\Smith\Anaconda2\envs\myenvt\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 101, in execfile
      exec(compile(f.read(), filename, 'exec'), namespace)
  
    File "C:/Users/Smith/DS/nlp1.py", line 11, in 
      nlp = spacy.load('en')
  
    File "C:\Users\Smith\Anaconda2\envs\myenvt\lib\site-packages\spacy\__init__.py", line 19, in load
      return util.load_model(name, **overrides)
  
    File "C:\Users\Smith\Anaconda2\envs\myenvt\lib\site-packages\spacy\util.py", line 112, in load_model
      return load_model_from_link(name, **overrides)
  
    File "C:\Users\Smith\Anaconda2\envs\myenvt\lib\site-packages\spacy\util.py", line 131, in load_model_from_link
      return cls.load(**overrides)
  
  AttributeError: module 'en' has no attribute 'load'
  </pre>