spaCy for Python 2.7?

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Project requirements lock me into using Ubuntu 18.04 / Python 2.7.17.

• What's the last version of spaCy that will run on this system?
• My needs will probably be fairly simple (parsing, tagging of English snippets). Will I hit some sort of "wall" forced to stick with the older version (meaning, is it foolhardy to do this for some reason)?

Thanks!

[svlandeg]

Hi!

If you're locked into Python 2.7, you can still use spaCy 2.x, with the latest release v2.3.5: https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/v2.3.5

spaCy v3 only supports Python 3. But spaCy v2.3.5 should be stable and good for you to use for the use-cases you've summed up. So I hope that works for you!