liwca 0.0.1a1

LIWC Assistant

liwca

LIWCA is a LIWC assistant. It is not a copy of LIWC (they don't like that), it is just helper functions that I've found useful.

Stuff like:

• Reading and writing dictionary files (.dic[x])
• Converting between .dic and .dicx files
• Converting between dictionary (.dic[x]) and tabular (.[ct]sv) files
• Fetching public dictionary files from remote repositories
• Calling liwc-22-cli from Python

Install with pip

pip install liwca

Examples

import liwca

# Download and read a public dictionary
dx = liwca.fetch_dx("sleep")

# Write local dictionary files
liwca.write_dx(dx, "./sleep.dic")
liwca.write_dx(dx, "./sleep.dicx")

# Read local dictionaries
dx = liwca.read_dic("./sleep.dic")
dx = liwca.read_dicx("./sleep.dicx")

dx.to_dicx("./moral-foundations.dicx")

# Load local dictionary
dic = liwca.read_dx("./sleep.dicx")