spaCy Fix: Update display import for compatibility with latest IPython Fixes: #13763

Fix: Update display import for compatibility with latest IPython

Description

This PR updates the import statement in displacy.render() to fix an ImportError caused by breaking changes in IPython 9+.

Replaced:

from IPython.core.display import HTML, display

With:

from IPython.display import HTML, display

The display function is no longer available in IPython.core.display in IPython 9 and above. This change ensures displacy.render() works correctly in Jupyter and notebook environments using newer versions of IPython.

Tested in:

Python 3.12.9 (venv)
IPython 9.0.2
JupyterLab
Confirmed displacy.render() now works without error.

Types of change

[x] Bug fix

Checklist

[x] I confirm that I have the right to submit this contribution under the project's MIT license.
[x] I ran the tests, and all new and existing tests passed.
[x] My changes don't require a change to the documentation, or if they do, I've added all required information.

Fixes: #13763

Apr 04 '25 17:04 rnihesh

also ran into this issue, was about to submit my own PR

Apr 06 '25 10:04 majorgilles

Thanks a lot and sorry for only getting to this now!

Just wondering if we should include a try/except here for backwards compatibility, even though it's not very pretty. Because I wouldn't want users on older IPython versions to run into problems going forward. This is probably the one thing I would add and then we can ship this (happy to do it before we release or you can also make an update) 🙂