# Running Prodigy for the First Time Problem with thinc.api? **URL:** https://support.prodi.gy/t/running-prodigy-for-the-first-time-problem-with-thinc-api/4489 **Category:** Getting Started **Tags:** solved, usage, install **Created:** [July 26, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/running-prodigy-for-the-first-time-problem-with-thinc-api/4489 "2021-07-26T13:13:27Z") **Posts on this page:** 3 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![aball123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@aball123](https://support.prodi.gy/u/aball123) #### Post date: [July 26, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/running-prodigy-for-the-first-time-problem-with-thinc-api/4489/1 "2021-07-26T13:13:28Z")
Steps thus far: 1. Created a brand new VENV using command shell doing the following: conda create --no-default-packages -n test\_new2 python3.8 2. Upon creation, the following packages were downloaded and installed: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/prodigy/original/2X/7/711c22a0f0f9307af81da0e574f6a812b152b74b.png) 3. pip install ./prodigy\*.whl — worked like a charm this time, no errors. 4. Installed python -m spacy download en\_core\_web\_sm with no errors. I should be good to go now, right? So, I open up [Named Entity Recognition · Prodigy · An annotation tool for AI, Machine Learning & NLP](https://prodi.gy/docs/named-entity-recognition) to see how this things works. I include news\_headlines.jsonl file into my virtual environment and enter this code into the terminal: ```python prodigy ner.manual ner_news_headlines blank:en ./news_headlines.jsonl --label PERSON,ORG,PRODUCT,LOCATION ``` However, windows pops up a "how do you want to open this file" dialogue. When I view in "text" I see "#!/bin/sh python -m prodigy "$@"" ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/prodigy/original/2X/6/67ccaec6412edc6d7da08f62ef187fc71f59238f.png) I assume Prodigy should automatically run after issuing this command? Or is there some additional setup I need to perform. When I run the python -m prodigy stats command, I get the following: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/prodigy/original/2X/8/876387196dfdb6c85de6644b814dc0752c52aba8.jpeg) When I run the python -m prodigy "$@" command I get this: ```python Traceback (most recent call last): return _run_code(code, main_globals, None, File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\prodigy\ __main__.py", line 48, in registry.recipes.get_entry_points() File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\catalogue.py", line 127, in get_entry_points result[entry_point.name] = entry_point.load() File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\importlib\metadata.py", line 77, in load module = import_module(match.group('module')) File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\importlib\ __init__.py", line 127, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "", line 1014, in _gcd_import File "", line 991, in _find_and_load File "", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "", line 671, in _load_unlocked File "", line 783, in exec_module File "", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sense2vec\ __init__.py", line 1, in from .sense2vec import Sense2Vec # noqa: F401 File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sense2vec\sense2vec.py", line 9, in from .util import registry, cosine_similarity File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sense2vec\util.py", line 5, in from thinc.api import get_array_module ImportError: cannot import name 'get_array_module' from 'thinc.api' (C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\thinc\api.py) PS C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\envs\test_new2\code_files> python -m prodigy "$@" Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main return _run_code(code, main_globals, None, File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\prodigy\ __main__.py", line 48, in registry.recipes.get_entry_points() File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\catalogue.py", line 127, in get_entry_points result[entry_point.name] = entry_point.load() File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\importlib\metadata.py", line 77, in load module = import_module(match.group('module')) File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\importlib\ __init__.py", line 127, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "", line 1014, in _gcd_import File "", line 991, in _find_and_load File "", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "", line 671, in _load_unlocked File "", line 783, in exec_module File "", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sense2vec\ __init__.py", line 1, in from .sense2vec import Sense2Vec # noqa: F401 File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sense2vec\sense2vec.py", line 9, in from .util import registry, cosine_similarity File "C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sense2vec\util.py", line 5, in from thinc.api import get_array_module ImportError: cannot import name 'get_array_module' from 'thinc.api' (C:\Users\AndrewG\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\thinc\api.py) ``` Spacy version is 2.3.7. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/prodigy/original/2X/f/f2f87d7d43e7e4967ba74e752f11831a500dccac.png) My PIP List: ```python Package Version ---------------------------------- ------------------- aiofiles 0.7.0 alabaster 0.7.12 anaconda-client 1.7.2 anaconda-navigator 2.0.3 anaconda-project 0.9.1 anyio 2.2.0 appdirs 1.4.4 argh 0.26.2 argon2-cffi 20.1.0 asn1crypto 1.4.0 astroid 2.5 astropy 4.2.1 async-generator 1.10 atomicwrites 1.4.0 attrs 20.3.0 autopep8 1.5.6 Babel 2.9.0 backcall 0.2.0 backports.functools-lru-cache 1.6.4 backports.shutil-get-terminal-size 1.0.0 backports.tempfile 1.0 backports.weakref 1.0.post1 bcrypt 3.2.0 beautifulsoup4 4.9.3 bitarray 1.9.2 bkcharts 0.2 black 19.10b0 bleach 3.3.0 blis 0.7.4 bokeh 2.3.2 boto 2.49.0 Bottleneck 1.3.2 brotlipy 0.7.0 cachetools 4.2.2 catalogue 1.0.0 certifi 2020.12.5 cffi 1.14.5 chardet 4.0.0 click 7.1.2 cloudpickle 1.6.0 clyent 1.2.2 colorama 0.4.4 comtypes 1.1.9 conda 4.10.1 conda-build 3.21.4 conda-content-trust 0+unknown conda-package-handling 1.7.3 conda-repo-cli 1.0.4 conda-token 0.3.0 conda-verify 3.4.2 contextlib2 0.6.0.post1 cryptography 3.4.7 cycler 0.10.0 cymem 2.0.5 Cython 0.29.23 cytoolz 0.11.0 dask 2021.4.0 decorator 5.0.6 defusedxml 0.7.1 diff-match-patch 20200713 distributed 2021.4.0 docutils 0.17 en-core-web-md 2.3.1 en-core-web-sm 2.3.1 entrypoints 0.3 et-xmlfile 1.0.1 fastapi 0.44.1 fastcache 1.1.0 filelock 3.0.12 flake8 3.9.0 Flask 1.1.2 fsspec 0.9.0 future 0.18.2 gevent 21.1.2 glob2 0.7 greenlet 1.0.0 h11 0.9.0 h5py 2.10.0 HeapDict 1.0.1 html5lib 1.1 idna 2.10 imagecodecs 2021.3.31 imageio 2.9.0 imagesize 1.2.0 importlib-metadata 3.10.0 iniconfig 1.1.1 intervaltree 3.1.0 ipykernel 5.3.4 ipython 7.22.0 ipython-genutils 0.2.0 ipywidgets 7.6.3 isort 5.8.0 itsdangerous 1.1.0 jdcal 1.4.1 jedi 0.17.2 Jinja2 2.11.3 joblib 1.0.1 json5 0.9.5 jsonschema 3.2.0 jupyter 1.0.0 jupyter-client 6.1.12 jupyter-console 6.4.0 jupyter-core 4.7.1 jupyter-packaging 0.7.12 jupyter-server 1.4.1 jupyterlab 3.0.14 jupyterlab-pygments 0.1.2 jupyterlab-server 2.4.0 jupyterlab-widgets 1.0.0 keyring 22.3.0 kiwisolver 1.3.1 lazy-object-proxy 1.6.0 libarchive-c 2.9 llvmlite 0.36.0 locket 0.2.1 lxml 4.6.3 MarkupSafe 1.1.1 matplotlib 3.3.4 mccabe 0.6.1 menuinst 1.4.16 mistune 0.8.4 mkl-fft 1.3.0 mkl-random 1.2.1 mkl-service 2.3.0 mock 4.0.3 more-itertools 8.7.0 mpmath 1.2.1 msgpack 1.0.2 multipledispatch 0.6.0 murmurhash 1.0.5 mypy-extensions 0.4.3 navigator-updater 0.2.1 nbclassic 0.2.6 nbclient 0.5.3 nbconvert 6.0.7 nbformat 5.1.3 nest-asyncio 1.5.1 networkx 2.5 nltk 3.6.1 nose 1.3.7 notebook 6.3.0 numba 0.53.1 numexpr 2.7.3 numpy 1.20.1 numpydoc 1.1.0 olefile 0.46 openpyxl 3.0.7 packaging 20.9 pandas 1.2.4 pandocfilters 1.4.3 paramiko 2.7.2 parso 0.7.0 partd 1.2.0 path 15.1.2 pathlib2 2.3.5 pathspec 0.7.0 pathy 0.6.0 patsy 0.5.1 peewee 3.14.4 pep8 1.7.1 pexpect 4.8.0 pickleshare 0.7.5 Pillow 8.2.0 pip 21.0.1 pkginfo 1.7.0 plac 1.1.3 pluggy 0.13.1 ply 3.11 preshed 3.0.5 prodigy 1.10.8 prometheus-client 0.10.1 prompt-toolkit 3.0.17 psutil 5.8.0 ptyprocess 0.7.0 py 1.10.0 pycodestyle 2.6.0 pycosat 0.6.3 pycparser 2.20 pycurl 7.43.0.6 pydantic 1.8.2 pydocstyle 6.0.0 pyerfa 1.7.3 pyflakes 2.2.0 Pygments 2.8.1 PyJWT 1.7.1 pylint 2.7.4 pyls-black 0.4.6 pyls-spyder 0.3.2 PyNaCl 1.4.0 pyodbc 4.0.0-unsupported pyOpenSSL 20.0.1 pyparsing 2.4.7 pyreadline 2.1 pyrsistent 0.17.3 PySocks 1.7.1 pytest 6.2.3 python-dateutil 2.8.1 python-jsonrpc-server 0.4.0 python-language-server 0.36.2 pytz 2021.1 PyWavelets 1.1.1 pywin32 227 pywin32-ctypes 0.2.0 pywinpty 0.5.7 PyYAML 5.4.1 pyzmq 20.0.0 QDarkStyle 2.8.1 QtAwesome 1.0.2 qtconsole 5.0.3 QtPy 1.9.0 regex 2021.4.4 requests 2.25.1 rope 0.18.0 Rtree 0.9.7 ruamel-yaml-conda 0.15.100 scikit-image 0.18.1 scikit-learn 0.24.1 scipy 1.6.2 seaborn 0.11.1 Send2Trash 1.5.0 sense2vec 2.0.0 setuptools 52.0.0.post20210125 simplegeneric 0.8.1 singledispatch 0.0.0 sip 4.19.13 six 1.15.0 smart-open 5.1.0 sniffio 1.2.0 snowballstemmer 2.1.0 sortedcollections 2.1.0 sortedcontainers 2.3.0 soupsieve 2.2.1 spacy 2.3.7 spacy-legacy 3.0.8 Sphinx 4.0.1 sphinxcontrib-applehelp 1.0.2 sphinxcontrib-devhelp 1.0.2 sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp 1.0.3 sphinxcontrib-jsmath 1.0.1 sphinxcontrib-qthelp 1.0.3 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml 1.1.4 sphinxcontrib-websupport 1.2.4 spyder 4.2.5 spyder-kernels 1.10.2 SQLAlchemy 1.4.7 srsly 1.0.5 starlette 0.12.9 statsmodels 0.12.2 sympy 1.8 tables 3.6.1 tblib 1.7.0 terminado 0.9.4 testpath 0.4.4 textdistance 4.2.1 thinc 7.4.5 threadpoolctl 2.1.0 three-merge 0.1.1 tifffile 2021.4.8 toml 0.10.2 toolz 0.11.1 tornado 6.1 tqdm 4.59.0 traitlets 5.0.5 typed-ast 1.4.2 typer 0.3.2 typing-extensions 3.7.4.3 ujson 4.0.2 unicodecsv 0.14.1 urllib3 1.26.4 uvicorn 0.11.8 wasabi 0.8.2 watchdog 1.0.2 wcwidth 0.2.5 webencodings 0.5.1 websockets 8.1 Werkzeug 1.0.1 wheel 0.36.2 widgetsnbextension 3.5.1 win-inet-pton 1.1.0 win-unicode-console 0.5 wincertstore 0.2 wrapt 1.12.1 xlrd 2.0.1 XlsxWriter 1.3.8 xlwings 0.23.0 xlwt 1.3.0 xmltodict 0.12.0 yapf 0.31.0 zict 2.0.0 zipp 3.4.1 zope.event 4.5.0 zope.interface 5.3.0 ``` I'm stuck. ---
### Author: ![ines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ines/32/3_2.png) [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines) #### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/running-prodigy-for-the-first-time-problem-with-thinc-api/4489/2 "2021-07-27T01:34:15Z")
Hi! From looking at your traceback, it seems like the error happens when the `sense2vec` package loads its entry points and registers them with spaCy. This all happens in the background. You might have ended up with an incompatible version of `sense2vec` that expects a newer version of spaCy, so uninstalling `sense2vec` should solve the problem. > [@aball123](#): > > However, windows pops up a "how do you want to open this file" dialogue. When I view in "text" I see "#!/bin/sh The `prodigy` command is implemented via a shell script and depending on the shell you use on Windows, it may not be able to interpret that correctly. Using `python -m prodigy` is the best solution and it's something we also recommend more generally, because it ensures that you're executing the correct version of a package CLI (and not something else that may be registered globally). ---
### Author: ![aball123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@aball123](https://support.prodi.gy/u/aball123) #### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 4:39am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/running-prodigy-for-the-first-time-problem-with-thinc-api/4489/3 "2021-07-27T04:39:35Z")
Thank you! It's working now.