One of the most beautiful things about Python is a plenty of third-party libraries (which Lua world unfortunately lacks). Creating tag cloud in Python is quite easy. Firstly, we need to install required packages. I run Fedora 18.
yum install python-pip.noarch yum install pygame yum install simplejson
Now you an install pytagcloud. (NB: do not use easy_install, pip is the right way to go).
python-pip install -U pytagcloud
Now we are ready to create our first tag cloud image:
from pytagcloud import create_tag_image, make_tags from pytagcloud.lang.counter import get_tag_counts TEXT = ''' You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day Tried to run Tried to hide Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side, yeah We chased our pleasures here Dug our treasures there But can you still recall The time we cried Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side Yeah! C'mon, yeah Everybody loves my baby Everybody loves my baby She get She get She get She get high I found an island in your arms Country in your eyes Arms that chain us Eyes that lie Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side Break on through, oww! Oh, yeah! Made the scene Week to week Day to day Hour to hour The gate is straight Deep and wide Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side Break on through Break on through Break on through Break on through Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah''' tags = make_tags(get_tag_counts(TEXT), maxsize=150) create_tag_image(tags, 'cloud_large.png', size=(900, 600))
After you run this script you should have file ‘cloud_large.png’ in your current directory.
Here is mine:
Python is great.