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"