Textacy has no module preprocess or normalize whitespace

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Sudden problems with textacy

text3 = textacy.normalize_whitespace(text2)

AttributeError: module 'textacy' has no attribute 'normalize_whitespace'

This happens in Python 3.7

The script worked perfectly for the past year. The other day this error started happening. I feel I've tried everything. The line is critical to the program.

I created a python 3.6 env and an earlier version of textacy. Can't import textacy there because it says I don't have cachetools - I do.

Is there an approach you can recommend?

@VorsprungdurchTechnik None I can find anywhere. I didn't name any files textacy.py. — Ethe99, Apr 04 '20 at 20:06

Sofie VL · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-06T17:15:04.123

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This method is located at textacy.preprocessing, cf here and here, so you'll have to change the code to:

from textacy import preprocessing
text3 = preprocessing.normalize_whitespace(text2)

edited Apr 06 '20 at 17:15

answered Apr 04 '20 at 21:33

Sofie VL

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You are correct - I've tried that also but it does not work. I went back to versions from last year even, prior textacy, conda and spacy and still...how could it have worked before and not now? This seems crazy. – Ethe99 Apr 05 '20 at 17:32
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I just tried a clean install of `textacy` in a new environment. I edited my original answer, the code above should work now. – Sofie VL Apr 06 '20 at 17:16

Textacy has no module preprocess or normalize whitespace

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