Error installing / loading english model

[Ognnav]

Using Conda install of Python 2.7 on Windows 64bit.

python -m spacy download en yields the following error:
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pathlib.py", line 1167, in symlink_to
self._accessor.symlink(target, self, target_is_directory)
TypeError: symlink() takes exactly 3 arguments (4 given)

Screenshot:

Found old thread that suggested to comment out the line in pathlib.py's symlink_to function. This allows the download to complete, but then the data folder is empty, resulting in error: No such file or directory: 'C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\spacy\data\en\vocab\strings.json'
The data directory indeed does not contain the "en" subfolder.

[ines]

I think this may indeed be related to the pathlib bug or more generally, symlink issues on Windows (see #909). This is already fixed on master – if Windows and Python 2 is detected, it now uses mklink.

This fix will be included in the next release, coming very soon. In the meantime, you can either use the spaCy version currently on master, copy-paste the model data directory into spacy/data, or set up the symlink manually. spacy.load('model_name') will look for a directory or symlink of that name in spacy/data.

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