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spacy throws exception when run from Terminal, fails to import as module #13983

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@workflowsguy

Installed spacy and it's requirements as per the instructions here: https://pypi.org/project/spacy/
Result:

Downloading spacy-3.8.14-cp313-cp313-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (6.0 MB)
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Installing collected packages: spacy
Successfully installed spacy-3.8.14

When running any spacy commands from the Terminal like

python -m spacy validate

the following error message appears

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 203, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "/Users/guy/Library/Python/3.13/lib/python/site-packages/spacy/__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
    setup_cli()
    ~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/Users/guy/Library/Python/3.13/lib/python/site-packages/spacy/cli/_util.py", line 75, in setup_cli
    registry.cli.get_all()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/Users/guy/Library/Python/3.13/lib/python/site-packages/catalogue/__init__.py", line 110, in get_all
    result.update(self.get_entry_points())
                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/Users/guy/Library/Python/3.13/lib/python/site-packages/catalogue/__init__.py", line 125, in get_entry_points
    result[entry_point.name] = entry_point.load()
                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 179, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/importlib/__init__.py", line 88, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1395, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 935, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1023, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/Users/guy/Library/Python/3.13/lib/python/site-packages/spacy_curated_transformers/cli/debug_pieces.py", line 20, in <module>
    from ..pipeline.transformer import CuratedTransformer
  File "/Users/guy/Library/Python/3.13/lib/python/site-packages/spacy_curated_transformers/pipeline/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .transformer import CuratedTransformer
  File "/Users/guy/Library/Python/3.13/lib/python/site-packages/spacy_curated_transformers/pipeline/transformer.py", line 24, in <module>
    from ..models.listeners import ListenerStateUtils
  File "/Users/guy/Library/Python/3.13/lib/python/site-packages/spacy_curated_transformers/models/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .architectures import (
    ...<6 lines>...
    )
  File "/Users/guy/Library/Python/3.13/lib/python/site-packages/spacy_curated_transformers/models/architectures.py", line 6, in <module>
    from curated_transformers.models.albert import AlbertConfig, AlbertEncoder
ImportError: cannot import name 'AlbertConfig' from 'curated_transformers.models.albert' (/Users/guy/Library/Python/3.13/lib/python/site-packages/curated_transformers/models/albert/__init__.py)

How to reproduce the behaviour

Install spaCy as per the official instructions

Your Environment

  • Operating System: macOS 15.7.7 (arm64)
  • Python Version Used: 3.13.14
  • spaCy Version Used: 3.8.14
  • Environment Information: ?

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