{"id":19356,"date":"2017-11-29T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T10:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webcodegeeks.com\/?p=19356"},"modified":"2017-11-29T11:06:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T09:06:54","slug":"python-polyglot-modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-icu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webcodegeeks.com\/python\/python-polyglot-modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-icu\/","title":{"rendered":"Python: polyglot \u2013 ModuleNotFoundError: No module named \u2018icu\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to use the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/aboSamoor\/polyglot\">polyglot<\/a> NLP library that my colleague Will Lyon mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyonwj.com\/2017\/11\/15\/entity-extraction-russian-troll-tweets-neo4j\/\">his analysis of Russian Twitter Trolls<\/a> but had installation problems which I thought I\u2019d share in case anyone else experiences the same issues.<\/p>\n<p>I started by trying to install <cite>polyglot<\/cite>:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:py\">$ pip install polyglot\r\n\u00a0\r\nImportError: No module named 'icu'<\/pre>\n<p>Hmmm I\u2019m not sure what <cite>icu<\/cite> is but luckily there\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/aboSamoor\/polyglot\/issues\/10\">GitHub issue covering this problem<\/a>. That led me to <a href=\"https:\/\/tobywf.com\/2017\/05\/installing-pyicu-on-macos\/\">Toby Fleming\u2019s blog post<\/a> that suggests the following steps:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:py\">brew install icu4c\r\nexport ICU_VERSION=58\r\nexport PYICU_INCLUDES=\/usr\/local\/Cellar\/icu4c\/58.2\/include\r\nexport PYICU_LFLAGS=-L\/usr\/local\/Cellar\/icu4c\/58.2\/lib\r\npip install pyicu<\/pre>\n<p>I already had <cite>icu4c<\/cite> installed so I just had to make sure that I had the same version of that library as Toby did. I ran the following command to check that:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:py\">$ ls -lh \/usr\/local\/Cellar\/icu4c\/\r\ntotal 0\r\ndrwxr-xr-x  12 markneedham  admin   408B 28 Nov 06:12 58.2<\/pre>\n<p>That still wasn\u2019t enough though! I had to install these two libraries as well:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:py\">pip install pycld2\r\npip install morfessor<\/pre>\n<p>I was then able to install polyglot, but had to then run the following commands to download the files needed for entity extraction:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:py\">polyglot download embeddings2.de\r\npolyglot download ner2.de\r\npolyglot download embeddings2.en\r\npolyglot download ner2.en<\/pre>\n<div class=\"attribution\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Published on Web Code Geeks with permission by Mark Needham, partner at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webcodegeeks.com\/join-us\/wcg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WCG program<\/a>. 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