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sample python scripts this web browser is not supported use chrome edge safari or firefox for best results xword info home sample python scripts a k a fun with word lists python is becoming a popular programming language because it s both powerful and easy to learn and it s great for exploring word lists here are some sample scripts to get you started scripting is powerful and can often do searches regex can t but remember scripts can only find results from your word list searches with our finder also include external dictionaries click any yellow box below to copy that script to your clipboard 1 find words that start and end with the same letter or same string of letters here s a simple script you can use as a template for exploring your own word list whether you got it from us or you built it yourself once you have a python environment set up on your computer you can copy and paste this script change the open statement to point to your text file and run it to find all the words that start and end with x or with the string de or whatever that s a very specific example but to find the words you re looking for all you have to do is replace the test at the end if word startswith with logic that fits your goal import sys this example uses a try except pattern to handle errors it s a common pattern in python and is the preferred way to handle errors the except block is only executed if an exception is raised in the try block use this pattern in the other examples here if you like class exitwithmessage exception pass try get the search string from command line or prompt if it s missing strip off any leading or trailing spaces and convert to lowercase pattern sys argv 1 if len sys argv 1 else input enter start end search string pattern pattern strip lower bail if we didn t get a search string if len pattern 0 print no search string specified raise exitwithmessage open your word list file in read only mode if it isn t in current directory specify full path using forward slash not backslash with open xwiwordlist txt as f for line in f parts line split split the line into parts using as the delimiter word parts 0 strip get the first part of the line the word before score int parts 1 score isn t used here but this is how you get it if word startswith pattern and word endswith pattern print word except exitwithmessage sys exit 2 find words that exist with or without a specified suffix a 2021 crossword played on the idea of words with or without the suffix ion this modification to the program finds words with and without any suffix you enter import sys suffix sys argv 1 if len sys argv 1 else input enter suffix suffix suffix strip lower suffix_length len suffix if suffix_length 0 sys exit count 0 full_word_set set set automatically eliminates duplicates and is faster than list with open xwiwordlist txt as f for line in f parts line split full_word parts 0 strip lower full_word_set add full_word all words get added to set if the word ends with our suffix see if the word without the suffix is already in the set note this assumes words in alphabetical order eg pass would precede passion in the list if full_word endswith suffix truncated_word full_word suffix_length if truncated_word in full_word_set print f truncated_word full_word count 1 print f count found 3 words made by combining other words a 2022 crossword combined 4 letter words to build up 16 letter theme answers this program searches a word list for all such possible answers variable types are declared that s not necessary for these short programs but it s good practice from typing import list set count int 0 number of matches found set4 set str set set of all the 4 letter words for fast lookup list16 list str collection of all the 16 letter words with open xwiwordlist txt as f for line in f word str line split 0 strip lower if len word 4 set4 add word if len word 16 list16 append word for word16 in list16 parts word16 i i 4 for i in range 0 16 4 if all part in set4 for part in parts print f parts 0 parts 1 parts 2 parts 3 word16 count 1 print f count found 4 find words that match a regex pattern this script builds on the first sample by replacing the simple start end test with a regex match you can explore regex on our finder page and see some regex examples here import re sys from typing import pattern pattern str sys argv 1 if len sys argv 1 else input enter regex pattern pattern strip if len pattern 0 sys exit compile the pattern into a regex object so it only has to be evaluated once prog pattern str re compile pattern replace v aeiou replace c aeiou re ignorecase count int 0 with open xwijeffchenlist txt as f for line in f word str line split 0 strip lower if prog search word print word count 1 print f count found 5 select words that don t contain any of the letters you specify specify say aiouy to show words where the only vowel if any is e compare with these finder results aiouy using onelook and aiouy using regex how would you change the script to select words that only contain letters you specify import sys eliminators sys argv 1 if len sys argv 1 else input enter letters to eliminate eliminators eliminators strip lower if len eliminators 0 sys exit eliminationset set eliminators convert eliminators to set of characters to check with open xwiwordlist txt as f for line in f line line strip lower removes n parts line split word parts 0 strip score parts 1 if not any x in line for x in eliminationset print line 6 sort word list by score and then by length this example is different there s no user input it sorts a copy of your word list so the highest value words are on top within each score words are sorted by length and then alphabetically within each score length group i m not saying this particular sort is useful but it demonstrates how to do it if you do re sort your word list with a python script you probably want to run your program from the command line and then pipe it to a new text file open a command prompt navigate to your folder and type something like main py mynewtextfile txt define the class answerword that for each word in our word list encapsulates the word the length of the word and the score class answerword object def __init__ self word score 0 self word word self length len word self score score answerwordarray this array will hold a collection of answerword objects with open xwiwordlist txt as f for line in f parts line split answerwordarray append answerword parts 0 strip lower int parts 1 sort by score descending length ascending and word ascending in one pass answerwordarray sort key lambda k k score k length k word for answerword in answerwordarray print answerword word str answerword score 7 ai can help suppose you re not an experienced programmer artificial intelligence can sometimes do an amazing job i gave github copilot this prompt write a python function to read lines from a text file and print out the ones that are palindromes here s the 7 line function it came up with complete with comments def print_palindromes filename with open filename r as file for line in file line line strip lower remove leading trailing white space and convert to lower case line join ch for ch in line if ch isalnum remove non alphanumeric characters if line line 1 check if the line is the same forward and backward print line if you change the ch isalnum is alpha numeric to ch isalpha it will even work with files that include word scores have fun the rest is up to you your ingenuity and your creativity if you re serious about learning python xword info recommends pycharm the free community version works fine visual studio code is also a great choice and it s also free both are available for windows mac and linux python script has been copied to your clipboard xword info home xword info 2007 2026 jim horne 0 ms