Example usage

Here we will demonstrate how to use bf25_pycounts to count the words in a text file and count the top 5 results.

Imports

from bf25_pycounts.bf25_pycounts import count_words
from bf25_pycounts.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)