On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:06 -0700, kreglet wrote: > Hello, > > The problem that I am having is writing an algorithm for finding all the > possible words from a given word. For example: python > > from "python" you can make the words pot, top, hop, not etc. There are few > examples for making anagrams for a word, but only the whole word. I have > tried unsuccessfully to modify some of these to suit my purpose. Also on the > web there are numerous sites where you can type in a word and it will give > you a list of all the words that could be made from it. How would I go about > this in python? > > thanx, > kreglet
Of course doing things by yourself is more exciting and fun (and above all you have the pleasure to learn something new), but if you finally should decide to invoke an external utility (e.g.: for performance issues), then you might be interested in using "an": it's very fast and in the repositories of most linux distro. It has plenty of options. Example usage: an -m4 -w python [search only for single words in the dictionary with a minimum length of 4 letters] returns: hypo phony pony python tony typo Good luck with your project, Mac. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
