Unable to load fasttext-wiki-news-subswords-300

laila 0
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Starting with the gensim api:

import gensim.downloader as api
api.load('fasttext-wiki-news-subwords-300')

I get the error:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/user.name/gensim-data/fasttext-wiki-news-subwords-300/fasttext-wiki-news-subwords-300.gz'

I also tried the cli:

python3 -m gensim.downloader --download fasttext-wiki-news-subwords-300

and when I check the ~/gensim-data/fasttext-wiki-news-subwords-300 folder it only contains:

__init__.py
__pycache__

Have there been any changes to the to api or the dataset in the last few months?

Note

I am using Python3.8 and gensim==4.2.0

I have checked that the Certificates are Installed ('Install Certificates.command').

fasttext gensim api
1 Answers

I ended up deleting the ~/gensim-data folder and downgraded gensim to 3.8.3, seems to be working now. Leaving the question and answer here as (1) error message was a red herring and (2) solution was not straightforward.

laila0
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