On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> in the dictionary I >> have here (Debian Wheezy, using an American English dictionary - it's >> a symlink to (ultimately) /usr/share/dict/american-english), there are >> five entries in that list. > > > Mine's bigger than yours! On MacOSX 10.6 I get 41 words. > (I think someone must have fed a medical dictionary into > it... my list includes such obviously indispensible terms > as laparocolpohysterotomy, thyroparathyroidectomy and > ureterocystanastomosis.)
Yeah, it'll vary based on the exact dictionary used. I went for something with multiple, but not prolific, entries. > Unfortunately I seem to be missing antidisestablishmentarianism, > because the longest words in my dict are only 24 characters, > excluding the '\n'. Should I ask for my money back? I think you should. That's a fundamental flaw in the dictionary. Everyone knows that word's the longest! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
