Example usage

To use pycounts_jlc207 in a project:

Imports

from pycounts_jlc207.pycounts import count_words
from pycounts_jlc207.plotting import plot_words

Create a text file

We’ll first create a text file to work with using a famous quote from Einstein:

quote = """Insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results."""

with open('einstein.txt', 'w') as file:
    file.write(quote)

Count words

We can count the words in our text file using the count_words() function. Note that this function removes punctuation and makes all words lowercase before counting.

counts = count_words('einstein.txt')
print(counts)

Counter({'over': 2, 'and': 2, 'insanity': 1, 'is': 1, 'doing': 1, 'the': 1, 'same': 1, 'thing': 1, 'expecting': 1, 'different': 1, 'results': 1})

Plot words

We can now plot the result using the plot_words() function:

fig = plot_words(counts, n=5)