ImportError: No module named 'spacy.en'

I had to use en_core_web_sm instead of en to make that work. It is complaining about permission problem. The following works perfectly:

import spacy
spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
from spacy.lang.en import English

Yes, I can confirm that your solution is correct. The version of spaCy you downloaded from pip is v2.0, which includes a lot of new features, but also a few changes to the API. One of them is that all language data has been moved to a submodule spacy.lang to keep thing cleaner and better organised. So instead of using spacy.en, you now import from spacy.lang.en.

- from spacy.en import English
+ from spacy.lang.en import English

However, it's also worth mentioning that what you download when you run spacy download en is not the same as spacy.lang.en. The language data shipped with spaCy includes the static data like tokenization rules, stop words or lemmatization tables. The en package that you can download is a shortcut for the statistical model en_core_web_sm. It includes the language data, as well as binary weight to enable spaCy to make predictions for part-of-speech tags, dependencies and named entities.

Instead of just downloading en, I'd actually recommend using the full model name, which makes it much more obvious what's going on:

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")

When you call spacy.load, spaCy does the following:

1. Find the installed model named "en_core_web_sm" (a package or shortcut link).
2. Read its meta.json and check which language it's using (in this case, spacy.lang.en), and how its processing pipeline should look (in this case, tagger, parser and ner).
3. Initialise the language class and add the pipeline to it.
4. Load in the binary weights from the model data so pipeline components (like the tagger, parser or entity recognizer) can make predictions.

See this section in the docs for more details.

I used the following command for installing spacy from anaconda distribution.

conda install -c conda-forge spacy

and after that, I was able to download English using the following command without any error.

 python -m spacy download en