From 939e8ed567c41af87cb264fe768d7dc5f45bf8f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal+gh@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 15:52:09 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add lookup properties for components in Language

---
 spacy/language.py | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spacy/language.py b/spacy/language.py
index e559e7c58..f4966b106 100644
--- a/spacy/language.py
+++ b/spacy/language.py
@@ -184,6 +184,35 @@ class Language(object):
                 flat_list.append(pipe)
         self.pipeline = flat_list
 
+    # Conveniences to access pipeline components
+    @property
+    def tensorizer(self):
+        return self.get_component('tensorizer')
+
+    @property
+    def tagger(self):
+        return self.get_component('tagger')
+
+    @property
+    def parser(self):
+        return self.get_component('parser')
+
+    @property
+    def entity(self):
+        return self.get_component('ner')
+
+    @property
+    def matcher(self):
+        return self.get_component('matcher')
+
+    def get_component(self, name): 
+        if self.pipeline in (True, None):
+            return None
+        for proc in self.pipeline:
+            if hasattr(proc, 'name') and proc.name.endswith(name):
+                return proc
+        return None
+
     def __call__(self, text, disable=[]):
         """'Apply the pipeline to some text. The text can span multiple sentences,
         and can contain arbtrary whitespace. Alignment into the original string