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.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "auto_examples/arabic.py"
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.. only:: html

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

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_auto_examples_arabic.py>`
        to download the full example code.

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_arabic.py:


Create wordcloud with Arabic
============================
Generating a wordcloud from Arabic text

Dependencies:
- bidi.algorithm
- arabic_reshaper

Dependencies installation:
pip install python-bidi arabic_reshape

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.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out

 .. code-block:: none


    <wordcloud.wordcloud.WordCloud object at 0x7f15bfc81590>





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.. code-block:: Python


    import os
    import codecs
    from wordcloud import WordCloud
    import arabic_reshaper
    from bidi.algorithm import get_display

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

    # Read the whole text.
    f = codecs.open(os.path.join(d, 'arabicwords.txt'), 'r', 'utf-8')

    # Make text readable for a non-Arabic library like wordcloud
    text = arabic_reshaper.reshape(f.read())
    text = get_display(text)

    # Generate a word cloud image
    wordcloud = WordCloud(font_path='fonts/NotoNaskhArabic/NotoNaskhArabic-Regular.ttf').generate(text)

    # Export to an image
    wordcloud.to_file("arabic_example.png")


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

   **Total running time of the script:** (0 minutes 0.399 seconds)


.. _sphx_glr_download_auto_examples_arabic.py:

.. only:: html

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

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

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

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

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

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-zip

      :download:`Download zipped: arabic.zip <arabic.zip>`


.. only:: html

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

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