'str' object has no attribute 'text' for sentencizer of xx_ent_wiki_sm

[ZenBel]

When I run this piece of code:

spacy.cli.download("xx_ent_wiki_sm")
nlp = spacy.load("xx_ent_wiki_sm",disable=["tagger", "lemmatizer", "ner", "textcat", "parser"])
nlp.add_pipe("sentencizer")
nlp("hello. goodbye")

everything works perfectly. However, when I try to run this piece of code

spacy.cli.download("xx_ent_wiki_sm")
nlp = spacy.load("xx_ent_wiki_sm",disable=["tagger", "lemmatizer", "ner", "textcat", "parser"]).add_pipe("sentencizer")
nlp("hello. goodbye")

I get the following error: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'text'.

But I don't understand why. Can someone shed some light on it?

Thanks in advance,

Z

[rmitsch]

Hi @ZenBel, Language.add_pipe() returns a Callable (like a Pipe), not the Language instance itself. See also the Language docs.
So what you are doing here is assigning the sentencizer pipe you just created to your nlp variable and then calling it.

[ZenBel]

I see, thank you for the clarification!