splits = self._tokenizer(text)
        return self._merge_splits(splits, self._separator)
[docs]class SpacyTextSplitter(TextSplitter):
    """Implementation of splitting text that looks at sentences using Spacy."""
    def __init__(
        self, separator: str = "\n\n", pipeline: str = "en_core_web_sm", **kwargs: Any
    ) -> None:
        """Initialize the spacy text splitter."""
        super().__init__(**kwargs)
        try:
            import spacy
        except ImportError:
            raise ImportError(
                "Spacy is not installed, please install it with `pip install spacy`."
            )
        self._tokenizer = spacy.load(pipeline)
        self._separator = separator
[docs]    def split_text(self, text: str) -> List[str]:
        """Split incoming text and return chunks."""
        splits = (str(s) for s in self._tokenizer(text).sents)
        return self._merge_splits(splits, self._separator)
# For backwards compatibility
[docs]class PythonCodeTextSplitter(RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter):
    """Attempts to split the text along Python syntax."""
    def __init__(self, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
        """Initialize a PythonCodeTextSplitter."""
        separators = self.get_separators_for_language(Language.PYTHON)
        super().__init__(separators=separators, **kwargs)
[docs]class MarkdownTextSplitter(RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter):
    """Attempts to split the text along Markdown-formatted headings."""
    def __init__(self, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
        """Initialize a MarkdownTextSplitter."""
        separators = self.get_separators_for_language(Language.MARKDOWN)
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