initialize.py

import spacy
from spacy.tokenizer import Tokenizer
from spacy.util import (
    compile_infix_regex,
    compile_prefix_regex,
    compile_suffix_regex,
)

# Use this file to initialize all the heavy common packages shared by multiple transformation and filters.

spacy_nlp = None


def initialize_models():
    global spacy_nlp
    # load spacy
    spacy_nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")


def reinitialize_spacy():
    """Reinitialize global spacy tokenizer to defaults so that each
    transformation has a default spacy model to work with.
    """
    global spacy_nlp
    rules = spacy_nlp.Defaults.tokenizer_exceptions
    infix_re = compile_infix_regex(spacy_nlp.Defaults.infixes)
    prefix_re = compile_prefix_regex(spacy_nlp.Defaults.prefixes)
    suffix_re = compile_suffix_regex(spacy_nlp.Defaults.suffixes)

    spacy_nlp.tokenizer = Tokenizer(
        spacy_nlp.vocab,
        rules=rules,
        prefix_search=prefix_re.search,
        suffix_search=suffix_re.search,
        infix_finditer=infix_re.finditer,
    )