Update app.py

app.py

@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
 import os
-
+import sys
 # Set HF_HOME to a writable directory in /tmp
 os.environ["HF_HOME"] = "/tmp/huggingface_cache"
 os.makedirs("/tmp/huggingface_cache", exist_ok=True)
 os.environ["PYTHONUSERBASE"] = "/tmp/.local"
 os.makedirs("/tmp/.local", exist_ok=True)
+
+user_site = os.path.join(os.environ["PYTHONUSERBASE"], "lib", "python3.9", "site-packages")
+
+# Insert the user site-packages directory into sys.path if it's not already present.
+if user_site not in sys.path:
+    sys.path.insert(0, user_site)
 # Optionally, you can also set TRANSFORMERS_CACHE for backwards compatibility:
 os.environ["TRANSFORMERS_CACHE"] = "/tmp/huggingface_cache"
 
@@ -15,16 +21,6 @@ import subprocess
 import time
 import uuid
 from threading import Timer
-import spacy
-
-try:
-    import en_core_web_sm
-except ImportError:
-    from spacy.cli import download
-    download("en_core_web_sm")
-    import en_core_web_sm
-
-nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()
 
 
 from flask import Flask, render_template, request, url_for, send_from_directory