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+#coding="utf-8"
+
+from os.path import realpath as path
+
+def wordcloudgenerater(text, location, stpwd={"的","有","和","了","与","为","在","上","等","而","以","如","之","只",\
+                                 "是","都","即","后","中","同","从","及","也","对","到"}, w=2160, h=1440, mode="zh", font="Deng.ttf"):
+    '''Generate word cloud from a given string to a designated location. Default with Chinese text. \nRequires jieba and wordcloud to be installed first.'''
+    font=path(font)
+    if mode=="zh":
+        from jieba import cut
+        t2_seg=" ".join(cut(text)) #segmentation of raw text
+        import wordcloud
+        w2=wordcloud.WordCloud(font_path=font, width=w, \
+                               height=h, margin=5, max_words=100, min_font_size=12,\
+                              stopwords=stpwd,\
+                             random_state=255, background_color='#FFFFFF', max_font_size=200, \
+                             font_step=20, mode='RGB', relative_scaling='auto', regexp=None, \
+                             collocations=False, colormap=None, normalize_plurals=True, \
+                             contour_width=1, contour_color='black', repeat=False, \
+                             include_numbers=False, min_word_length=0, collocation_threshold=30)
+
+    elif mode=="en":
+        import wordcloud
+        w2=wordcloud.WordCloud(font_path=font, width=w, \
+                               height=h, margin=5, max_words=500, min_font_size=12,\
+                              stopwords=None,\
+                             random_state=255, background_color='#FFFFFF', max_font_size=200, \
+                             font_step=1, mode='RGB', relative_scaling='auto', regexp=None, \
+                             collocations=False, colormap=None, normalize_plurals=True, \
+                             contour_width=1, contour_color='black', repeat=False, \
+                             include_numbers=False, min_word_length=0, collocation_threshold=30)
+
+    w2.generate(t2_seg)
+
+    #convert escape characters to raw strings, from https://blog.csdn.net/wangchao701123/article/details/56281006
+    #without this step, the "invalid argument" error might be prompted when the parameter "location" is called 
+    escape_dict={'\a':r'\a',
+                            '\b':r'\b',
+                            '\c':r'\c',
+                            '\f':r'\f',
+                            '\n':r'\n',
+                            '\r':r'\r',
+                            '\t':r'\t',
+                            '\v':r'\v',
+                            '\'':r'\'',
+                            '\"':r'\"',
+                            '\0':r'\0',
+                            '\1':r'\1',
+                            '\2':r'\2',
+                            '\3':r'\3',
+                            '\4':r'\4',
+                            '\5':r'\5',
+                            '\6':r'\6',
+                            '\7':r'\7',
+                            '\8':r'\8',
+                            '\9':r'\9'}
+
+    def raw(text):  
+        new_string=""
+        for char in text:
+            try:
+               new_string+=escape_dict[char]
+            except KeyError:
+               new_string+=char
+        return new_string
+
+    w2.to_file(raw(location)) #generate and export word cloud