From cb02bff0ebe31ab0d3b13fad9fcd2424c09f6c4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ines Montani <ines@ines.io>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 20:24:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH]  Add blank:{lang} shortcut to util.load_mode

---
 spacy/tests/test_misc.py | 11 +++++++++++
 spacy/util.py            |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spacy/tests/test_misc.py b/spacy/tests/test_misc.py
index 4075ccf64..3ac621649 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/test_misc.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/test_misc.py
@@ -135,3 +135,14 @@ def test_ascii_filenames():
     root = Path(__file__).parent.parent
     for path in root.glob("**/*"):
         assert all(ord(c) < 128 for c in path.name), path.name
+
+
+def test_load_model_blank_shortcut():
+    """Test that using a model name like "blank:en" works as a shortcut for
+    spacy.blank("en").
+    """
+    nlp = util.load_model("blank:en")
+    assert nlp.lang == "en"
+    assert nlp.pipeline == []
+    with pytest.raises(ImportError):
+        util.load_model("blank:fjsfijsdof")
diff --git a/spacy/util.py b/spacy/util.py
index 419c99bc0..5fd296404 100644
--- a/spacy/util.py
+++ b/spacy/util.py
@@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ def load_model(name, **overrides):
     if not data_path or not data_path.exists():
         raise IOError(Errors.E049.format(path=path2str(data_path)))
     if isinstance(name, basestring_):  # in data dir / shortcut
+        if name.startswith("blank:"):  # shortcut for blank model
+            return get_lang_class(name.replace("blank:", ""))()
         if name in set([d.name for d in data_path.iterdir()]):
             return load_model_from_link(name, **overrides)
         if is_package(name):  # installed as package