Having created a new venv I am attempting to install spacy strictly in accordance with the documentation
Specifically:
pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
pip install -U 'spacy[apple]'
This fails (huge error output) that seems to stem from:
In file included from ../numpy/_core/src/umath/string_ufuncs.cpp:20:
../numpy/_core/src/umath/string_fastsearch.h:132:5: error: no type named 'ptrdiff_t' in namespace 'std'; did you mean simply 'ptrdiff_t'?
My guess is that the 2.2.6 version of numpy is incompatible but I can't find anything in spacy documentation to help me.
My Xcode environment is fully up-to-date.
I have seen other posts on Stackoverflow abut installation issues with spacy but they're rather old and some of the "solutions" are clearly ridiculous.
The issue is with the python version. spaCy is not yet compatible with python3.13. You need to use the python version <= 3.12