a suggestion to make chatterbot compatible with PyInstaller

[brightening-eyes]

hi, I have a suggestion that makes chatterbot possible to be compiled with pyinstaller. first, chatterbot uses spacy.load which pyinstaller can't recognize it as it uses shortcuts. instead, it should use normal import to load the language model. also, it should be possible to specify the language model (en_core_web_sm, en_core_web_md, en_core_web_lg etc), since as far as i know, en_core_web_sm doesn't support word vectors.

[gunthercox]

I'm not very familiar with pyinstaller. Does it have any advantages over pip (pip is kind of the standard package installer for Python).

I do like the idea of using imports for data, this sounds like something that might be useful to look into.

[brightening-eyes]

PyInstaller compiles your python code into executable. and as spacy.load loads the language by it's simlink to the package folder, it can't recognize it. putting PyInstaller aside, using spacy.load('en') for example is not recommended (spacy developers recommend to use imports). my idea is to get a nlp object, or getting the package name by it's string like "en_core_web_lg" in order to support word vectors.