I have a code on ipython notebook where I am attempting to make a wordcloud, but I get an error. From what I could see, the error is related to something else and not my code (something with fonts?)
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IOError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-71-795b92e06f22> in <module>()
4 # print x[0], x[1]
5
----> 6 genWordCloud(list_of_tuples)
<ipython-input-70-55c34fb2c915> in genWordCloud(filename)
15 count = filename
16 #words = myWC.fit_words(count, width=500, height=500)
---> 17 words = myWC.fit_words(count)
18 myWC.draw(words, pngPath + os.path.splitext(filename)[0] + '.png', width=500, height=500, scale=1)
19 return 'Cloud generated for {}'.format(filename)
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wordcloud/wordcloud.pyc in fit_words(self, words)
177 while True:
178 # try to find a position
--> 179 font = ImageFont.truetype(self.font_path, font_size)
180 # transpose font optionally
181 if random_state.random() < self.prefer_horizontal:
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFont.pyc in truetype(font, size, index, encoding, filename)
238
239 try:
--> 240 return FreeTypeFont(font, size, index, encoding)
241 except IOError:
242 if sys.platform == "win32":
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFont.pyc in __init__(self, font, size, index, encoding, file)
135
136 if isPath(font):
--> 137 self.font = core.getfont(font, size, index, encoding)
138 else:
139 self.font_bytes = font.read()
IOError: cannot open resource
I'm not so sure as to how to interpret this. Seems like a class I'm using needs some fonts, and something happens with some font files. Any insight will be appreciated
I am using this as a base: http://99projects.co/reports/p05-word-frequency/
You'll need to specify a font_path in your wordcloud object. Amueller, the author of the library changed a lot of things in his latest version. I updated my project according to these changes, you can check it here