Add error handling if import of info function in __init__.py fails #12952
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Description
The info function import currently imports the entire CLI. So it imports packages like typer and requests and importing spacy fails if they are not available on the current system. When we run spacy on webassembly, we might not want to bundle all of these CLI libraries, and using requests requires currently an ugly workaround (https://github.com/koenvo/pyodide-http) and the other CLI libraries can't really be used as of now and would be "dead weight". In the case of failure, by replacing info with a placeholder function that raises an error when it is attempted to be used, we can simply use spacy as is.
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