Permission Error when calling English()

I’ve recently been having this problem whenever I try to use spaCy. It was working fine previously, so I’m not sure if the change has to do with versions or if I’ve changed something in my permissions. Is this an issue on spaCy’s end or on my end?

>>> from spacy.en import English
>>> parser = English()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/spacy/language.py", line 225, in __init__
    package = util.get_package_by_name()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/spacy/util.py", line 26, in get_package_by_name
    name or about.__default_model__, data_path=via)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sputnik/__init__.py", line 159, in package
    pool = Pool(app_name, app_version, expand_path(data_path))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sputnik/pool.py", line 19, in __init__
    super(Pool, self).__init__(app_name, app_version, path, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sputnik/package_list.py", line 33, in __init__
    self.load()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sputnik/package_list.py", line 51, in load
    for package in self.packages():
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sputnik/package_list.py", line 37, in packages
    os.makedirs(self.path)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.4.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/os.py", line 237, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/spacy/data' 

[PratimaVK]

Hi. I am getting similar error. May I know how did you solve it?

C:\WINDOWS\system32>python -m spacy.en.download archive.gz checksum/md5 OK Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\Python34\lib\runpy.py”, line 170, in run_module_as_main “main”, mod_spec) File “C:\Python34\lib\runpy.py”, line 85, in run_code exec(code, run_globals) File “C:\Users\PratimaK\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python34\site-packages\spacy\en\download.py”, line 13, in <module> plac.call(main) File “C:\Users\PratimaK\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python34\site-packages\plac_core.py”, line 324, in call cmd, result = parser_from(obj).consume(arglist) File “C:\Users\PratimaK\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python34\site-packages\plac_core.py”, line 207, in consume return cmd, self.func((args + varargs + extraopts), *kwargs) File “C:\Users\PratimaK\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python34\site-packages\spacy\en\download.py”, line 9, in main download(‘en’, force) File “C:\Users\PratimaK\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python34\site-packages\spacy\download.py”, line 24, in download package = sputnik.install(about.title, about.version, about.models[lang]) File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\sputnik__init.py", line 46, in install path = pool.install(archive) File “C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\sputnik\pool.py”, line 47, in install os.rename(path + ‘.tmp’, path) PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: ‘C:\Users\PratimaK\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python34\site-packages\spacy\data\en-1.1.0.tmp’ -> ‘C:\Users\PratimaK\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python34\site-packages\spacy\data\en-1.1.0’

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