Misleading message trying to download non-existing model

I get a misleading error executing the following script code:

from spacy.es import Spanish

nlp = Spanish(path=None)

doc = nlp(u'Hola esto es una prueba de la librería Spacy en Español.')
sentence = next(doc.sents)

After that, the error tells me to download a non-existing model, as it is shown below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "spacy/tokens/doc.pyx", line 434, in __get__ (spacy/tokens/doc.cpp:9664)
ValueError: sentence boundary detection requires the dependency parse, which requires data to be installed. If you haven't done so, run: 
python -m spacy download es
to install the data

Running python -m spacy download es in command line the message tell me es does not existing as model:

$ python -m spacy download es

    Compatibility error

    No compatible model found for 'es' (spaCy v1.8.2).

SpaCy should have checked for available models, or simply pointed to the models documentation instead.

My Environment

• Python version: 2.7.13
• Platform: Darwin-16.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
• spaCy version: 1.8.2
• Installed models:

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Thanks for the report – this will definitely be fixed in the next version! 👍

(Also, as I mentioned on StackOverflow, the language models docs should probably be more explicit about what “alpha support” really means, i.e. that it refers to the tokenizer and Language class and not to alpha models etc. I think even renaming the section to “Languages” and adding a note to the alpha section will help here. Will update this as well!)

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