python anagram finder
August 13th, 2008 by webstersprodigy
This is a silly little program that finds anagrams. Just hangin out practicing python-fu, and this was a challenge I found online.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
This is a word descrambler for each word in wordlist.
This may be terribly inefficient, but I only have 10 words
to unscramble, so it's fine
plus it only takes about .1 second per word on my am2 3000
"""
import sys
file = open("./wordlist")
dictionary = []
dictfile = open("/usr/share/dict/words")
for i in dictfile:
i = i.strip()
dictionary.append(i)
for scramword in file:
scramword = scramword.strip()
numletters = len(scramword)
for word in dictionary:
#first check that lengths are =
if len(word) == numletters:
isword = True
for letter in word:
if letter not in scramword:
isword = False
break
#by this time most words are gone but there
#may still be some superfluous guys
for letter in scramword:
if letter not in word:
isword = False
break
if isword:
print word
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