If you’re working with text/nlp stuff like spaCy/textacy, during your first time running it you might encounter errors relating to utf8. Below is how to deal with it:
https://natelandau.com/my-mac-osx-bash_profile/
https://coderwall.com/p/-k_93g/mac-os-x-valueerror-unknown-locale-utf-8-in-python
and if you happen to STILL not be able to do it after completing this (like me), trying restarting your macbook. it might have been that it didn’t re-source the bash profile correctly, so.
it works! trust me.