Update the spacy model name in older MedCAT models that specified it as `spacy_model` - use the default (`en_core_web_md`) instead. Can overwrite existing CDB (1 CLI argument) or write to a new file (2 CLI arguments).

update_spacy_model_in_old_cdb.py

from typing import Optional
from medcat.cdb import CDB
from sys import argv


def main(cdb_file: str, new_file_path: Optional[str] = None, new_spacy_model: str = 'en_core_web_md'):
    if new_file_path is None:
        new_file_path = cdb_file
        print("Overwriting existing CDB")
    cdb = CDB.load(cdb_file)
    prev_spacy_model = cdb.config.general.spacy_model
    print("Updating spacy model from", prev_spacy_model, "to", new_spacy_model)
    cdb.config.general.spacy_model = new_spacy_model
    cdb.save(new_file_path)
    print("Saved CDB to", new_file_path)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    # 1 argument -> overwrite
    # 2 arguments -> save to second file
    main(*argv[1:])