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

[rnihesh]

Fix: Update display import for compatibility with latest IPython

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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.

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Types of change

• Bug fix

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Checklist

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

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Fixes: #13763

[majorgilles]

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

[ines]

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) 🙂

[rnihesh]

Yup working on that

[rnihesh]

done fixed

[celestinoxp]

@ines ping...

[wildfluss]

this is very annoying especially when working with prodigy :/ had to patch version which prodigy pulls etc

[it176131]

Temporary solution until this is merged:

$ pip install -U "ipython<9"

[ondraz]

@honnibal or someone from spacy team please merge this. Thank you.

[rnihesh]

please merge this @ines @honnibal

[Carreau]

IPython maintainer here, the correct import has been from IPython.display import ... since 2012 (circa IPython 0.13), (or at least it should have been)

And in general you should avoid ImportError (it's unclear why, and use version numbers checking otherwise)

[rnihesh]

I guess your docs have been changed, when I raised this PR, I even saw the docs, specifying .core.display is to be used, can't get the link, but will add a reference here.

[rnihesh]

https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-1.0.0/api/generated/IPython.core.display.html

[Carreau]

THe docs are autogenerated, and it's not because an object is defined in IPython.core.display that it should be imported from there.

See how IPython/disaply.py defines

from IPython.core.display import * 

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/rel-1.0.0/IPython/display.py#L15

Which (should) makes the .core unnecessary everywhere.

[Carreau]

Also if you have issues with IPython like that, feel free to ping me, I can always re-add the old imports for a few version if it breaks the world.