SpaCy

I raised a git issue a couple of months back:

https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/issues/13658#issuecomment-2532080140

They are updating the build system across their packages to use the latest version of cibuildwheel.

python 3.13 is not added completely to their build system yet.

Team is working very hard to make it available on python 3.13

please use python 3.12 for spacy for now.

Directly from the "Downloading models" section of their github:

To increase transparency and make it easier to use spaCy with your own models, all data is now available as direct downloads, organised in individual releases. spaCy 1.7 also supports installing and loading models as Python packages. You can now choose how and where you want to keep the data files, and set up "shortcut links" to load models by name from within spaCy.

# pip install .whl or .tar.gz archive from path or URL
pip install /Users/you/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0.tar.gz
pip install /Users/you/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
pip install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0.tar.gz
pip install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0-py3-none-any.whl

It's worth noting running python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm really just launches pip in a subprocess in this case.

You're trying to install a version that's fairly old (from 2017) and doesn't have binary wheels for python 3.9 (released in 2020). Actually it doesn't have any binary wheels even for older versions of python, so to install it you'd definitely need a compiler. This is probably not what you want.

If you want spaCy v2 instead of spaCy v3, install like this to get the most recent v2.x release (without having to know the exact version number):

pip install "spacy~=2.0"

This is currently spacy==2.3.7.

Similarly, if you need a specific minor version of v2 like v2.3, you can also use ~= to specify that:

pip install "spacy~=2.3.0"

There are only python 3.9 wheels starting at v2.3.3. Otherwise you'll need to install a compiler as described in the docs: https://spacy.io/usage#source