If you're on linux or OSX, there's /usr/share/dict/words, which has a few thousand words. Although no plurals, which caught me out once. If you're on windows, it's not a hard file to find.
On 10 Nov 2011, at 16:14, Alex Hall wrote: > What about just grabbing a bit text file, such as from Project > Gutenberg (sorry for the possibly incorrect spelling)? Or copying the > text from a large webpage and pasting it into a text file? > > On 11/10/11, Alexander Etter <rhettna...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Hi. My friend gave me a good wake up exercise which I do not want you to >> solve for me: find all strings which can be converted to alpha with at most >> two operations, where alpha is some string constant, and a substring of at >> least length three of alpha must be in the answers. >> So, my question is: is there a library or .txt dictionary ( not the data >> type, rather the merriam webster kind ) I can use to test my script on? I'd >> imagine this library/dictionary to contain thousands of words. Not random >> words. >> Thanks for reading, >> Alexander >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from GMail website) > mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor Rich "RoadieRich" Lovely There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who know binary, Those who do not, And those who are off by one. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
