Fill a histogram with all the words from hamlet

The following demonstrates how a histogram with regex-defined bins may be used. Clearly, it is better to “be” than “not”. The Hamlet text is included in this package for convenient testing. You are welcome.

Python source code: plot_regex_1D_example.py

from pyhistogram import Hist
import re
from pyhistogram.testdata import get_file  # Hamlet testdata

hist = Hist(['To', 'be', 'or', 'not'])

# Split the words up into individual words
words = re.findall('\w+', get_file().read().lower())

for w in words:
    hist.fill(w)

hist.plot()

Total running time of the example: 0.35 seconds