Creating Pie Charts with Python Plotly: A Simple Tutorial

The author shares their experience learning Python and the Plotly library, focusing on creating pie charts, which are relatively simple and easy to understand for small datasets.

Below is a complete example that defines a Piecharts class, prints a welcome message, and provides a makePiecharts method to generate an offline Plotly pie chart.

#!/usr/bin/python
# coding=utf-8

import plotly
import plotly.plotly
import plotly.graph_objs as abcc
import plotly.plotly

class Piecharts:
    def __init__(self):
        print "欢迎使用饼状图生成类"

    def makePiecharts(self,labels,values,filename):
        trace = abcc.Pie(labels = labels,values= value)
        plotly.offline.plot([trace],filename=filename)

if __name__=="__main__":
    print 123
    labels = ["one","two","three","four","five"]
    value = [2123,3123,4355,11023,5225]
    drive = Piecharts()
    drive.makePiecharts(labels,value,"test.html")

The resulting pie chart is displayed below as an example of the output.

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