prune_langs.py

import os
import shutil

KEEP = ('en')

def remove_dirs():
    os.chdir('lang')
    for dir_ in os.listdir(os.getcwd()):
        if os.path.isdir(dir_):
            if dir_ not in KEEP:
                shutil.rmtree(dir_, ignore_errors=False, onerror=None)
    os.chdir('./')


if __name__ == "__main__":
    remove_dirs()

This is intended to remove unneeded languages from spacy (e.g. for slimming down to run in AWS Lambda). To use:

1. Paste this code into spacy/lang/
2. Update KEEP to include any language models you require (anything not in here will be removed)
3. Run the file python prune_langs.py