How to save an SVG string to file in python

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I'm using this wordcloud generator to do as the name suggests, and would like to save the contents as .svg. The library has a to_svg() function, which returns a string. It also has a to_file() which doesn't save in this format.

Is there any way to use pyplot's savefig function to save the string output from to_svg() to a file?

Why do you want to use pyplot.savefig for this? You could just with open('my.svg', 'w') as svg: svg.write(the_string)? — Grismar
– Grismar, Commented Nov 23, 2020 at 21:33

Grismar · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-23 21:37:50Z

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It doesn't use pyplot.savefig, but it needs nothing beyond the wordcloud library you linked and Python itself:

from wordcloud import WordCloud

wc = WordCloud()
wc.generate_from_text('This is a word cloud example which has a few words, showing them word for word in a cloud.')

svg_text = wc.to_svg()
with open('my.svg', 'w') as f:
    f.write(svg_text)

The output is the word cloud .svg you're after.

answered Nov 23, 2020 at 21:37

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Grismar Over a year ago

Sorry about the mouse cursor in frame :)

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