Please next time, if possible, add the complete error message you get.
In this case, it tells us that the error is in this line:
if sig == wordList[i]
You forgot the : at the end of this line (also, the next lines are not
indented extra, as they should).
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:28 AM, jessica cruz <jessica06c...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just started learning python an I'm currently working on this program. The
> purpose of this program is to read a string of letters from user input and
> print out all the words which are anagrams of the input string. This is what
> I have and when I try to run the program it says that there is an error
> "invalid syntax" but I can't figure out where.
>
>
>
>
> #this reads all of the words in the file into a list
> infile = open('/afs/cats/courses/cmps012a-cm/pa1/wordList.txt')
> wdcount = int(infile.readline()) #first item is count of all the words
> word_list = infile.readlines()
> wordList = []
>
> # code that will be compared will be a histogram type code with frequency
> # characters
> def code(w):
> hist = []
> chars = list(w)
> chars.sort()
> for letter in chars:
> if not letter in hist: # when the letter is not already in hist,
> hist.extend([letter, str(w.count(letter))]) # its added to hist
> along with its freq.
> else:
> continue
> coding = "".join(hist) # then they are joined as one string
> return coding
>
>
>
>
> # new list is made with words in word_list followed by its code
> for word in word_list:
> wordList.append(word)
> wordList.append(code(word[:(len(word)-2)]))
>
>
> while True:
> word1 = raw_input('Enter word:')
> word = word1.lower()
> sig = code(word)
> i = 1
> if sig in wordList:
> print "Anagrams:"
> while i <= len(wordList): # when the sig of the inputed word is in
> the word list,
> if sig == wordList[i]
> print wordList[i-1] # the corresponding words are printed
> i += 2 # then adds two because codes are every other entry
> else:
> print "No anagrams"
> choice = raw_input("Continue? (yes/no)")
> if choice == 'y' or choice == 'yes':
> continue
> else:
> break
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André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com
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