crosswords helper program

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I plan to write a program in Python in order to help me doing
crosswords, I was wondering if such a program already existed.

Basically it will get the number of letters of the word (5, 10, 12...)
then the letters known (B in second letter, E in 5th letter...) and then
search in a dictionary the words matching this criteria

Regards

Gerard

 

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I plan to write a program in Python in order to help me doing
crosswords, I was wondering if such a program already existed.

Basically it will get the number of letters of the word (5, 10, 12...)
then the letters known (B in second letter, E in 5th letter...) and then
search in a dictionary the words matching this criteria

Regards

Gerard

Pretty straightforward with a regular expression:

import re
words = ["BULLETIN", "BALLPARK", "BUSINESS"]
r = re.compile("^BU..N..S$", re.IGNORECASE)
for word in words:
if r.match(word):
print word

You would probably want to allow the user to input both some basic
format for your program and convert it to a regular expression as well
as input a full pattern, because then the user can have words that have
a U or a E in the second letter, simply because he doesn't know which
one is right yet.

 

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

I plan to write a program in Python in order to help me doing
crosswords, I was wondering if such a program already existed.

Basically it will get the number of letters of the word (5, 10, 12...)
then the letters known (B in second letter, E in 5th letter...) and then
search in a dictionary the words matching this criteria

import os
pattern = "B...E.."
wordfile = "/usr/share/dict/words"
cmd = "grep -i '\<" + pattern + "\>' " + wordfile
os.system( cmd )

 

[gg]

Chris F.A. Johnson a écrit :

import os
pattern = "B...E.."
wordfile = "/usr/share/dict/words"
cmd = "grep -i '\<" + pattern + "\>' " + wordfile
os.system( cmd )

thanks to all, that should do the trick