.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        Click :ref:`here <sphx_glr_download_auto_examples_frequency.py>`     to download the full example code
    .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

    .. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_frequency.py:


Using frequency
===============

Using a dictionary of word frequency.



.. image:: /auto_examples/images/sphx_glr_frequency_001.png
    :alt: frequency
    :class: sphx-glr-single-img






.. code-block:: default


    import multidict as multidict

    import numpy as np

    import os
    import re
    from PIL import Image
    from os import path
    from wordcloud import WordCloud
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


    def getFrequencyDictForText(sentence):
        fullTermsDict = multidict.MultiDict()
        tmpDict = {}

        # making dict for counting frequencies
        for text in sentence.split(" "):
            if re.match("a|the|an|the|to|in|for|of|or|by|with|is|on|that|be", text):
                continue
            val = tmpDict.get(text, 0)
            tmpDict[text.lower()] = val + 1
        for key in tmpDict:
            fullTermsDict.add(key, tmpDict[key])
        return fullTermsDict


    def makeImage(text):
        alice_mask = np.array(Image.open("alice_mask.png"))

        wc = WordCloud(background_color="white", max_words=1000, mask=alice_mask)
        # generate word cloud
        wc.generate_from_frequencies(text)

        # show
        plt.imshow(wc, interpolation="bilinear")
        plt.axis("off")
        plt.show()


    # get data directory (using getcwd() is needed to support running example in generated IPython notebook)
    d = path.dirname(__file__) if "__file__" in locals() else os.getcwd()

    text = open(path.join(d, 'alice.txt'), encoding='utf-8')
    text = text.read()
    makeImage(getFrequencyDictForText(text))


.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-timing

   **Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  4.607 seconds)


.. _sphx_glr_download_auto_examples_frequency.py:


.. only :: html

 .. container:: sphx-glr-footer
    :class: sphx-glr-footer-example



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

     :download:`Download Python source code: frequency.py <frequency.py>`



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

     :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: frequency.ipynb <frequency.ipynb>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_