copy= arg not supported for asarray in numpy version 1.*

[rmalouf]

The latest release added the copy= arg to WordCloud.to_array(), which in turn passes it to numpy.asarray(). Unfortunately this arg was added in numpy version 2.0 and isn't supported by earlier versions. Wordcloud claims compatibility with numpy >= 1.6.1, and a lot of machine learning/natural language processing libraries haven't updated to numpy > 2 so support for old versions is still really useful.

How important is maintaining the semantics of the copy option? It would be easy enough to just ignore the copy arg if using an older version of numpy, or to approximate the new behavior using array and/or asarray, but duplicating it exactly would be hard.

I can submit a PR for a fix for this, but I wanted to check on expectations first.

[cserpell]

Same is happening to me, I have wordcloud 1.9.5 and numpy 1.26.4, and it fails with this error:

return np.asarray(self.to_image(), copy=copy)

TypeError: asarray() got an unexpected keyword argument 'copy'

[thomasjpfan]

Fixed in #810 and added NumPy 1.X testing.

Can you try word_cloud==1.9.6 and see if it fixes your issue?

[rmalouf]

It works! Thanks for the quick fix!