adjusting spacy pin to 3.8.x series as a test

Author: erikspears

Diff for: Dockerfile

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ WORKDIR /app
 
 # Optimize pip and Python installations; install spaCy version matching requirements.txt
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip setuptools wheel && \
-    SPACY_VERSION=$(grep -E '^[sS]pacy==' requirements.txt | head -1 | cut -d'=' -f3) && \
+    SPACY_VERSION=$(grep -E '^[sS]pacy(==|>=)' requirements.txt | head -1 | sed -E 's/^[sS]pacy(==|>=)//') \
     if [ -n "$SPACY_VERSION" ]; then \
       echo "Found spaCy version $SPACY_VERSION in requirements.txt"; \
       pip install --no-cache-dir --only-binary :all: spacy==$SPACY_VERSION || \

Diff for: requirements.txt

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pyyaml
 whitenoise
 daphne
 textblob
-spacy
+spacy>=3.8.2
 natsort
 django-environ
 statistics