wordle_cheat.py

# Resolves possible 5 letter wordle guesses, sssh its a secret cheat script
import sys

sys.argv.pop(0)
if len(sys.argv) == 0 or 'help' in sys.argv[0]:
  print("usage: first 5 args is the known word _ for unknown prefix - for letters that are known to be in the word but not at that position, remaining args are known excluded letters")
  print("example: ./wordle_cheat.py -t _ i -n _ m a g o h k")
  print("       excludes m a g o h k letters and makes sure t cannot be the first, n cannot be the 4th and i must be the 3rd letter")
  exit(0)

with open('/usr/share/dict/words', 'r', encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore') as f:
  for word in f:
    word = word.strip().lower()
    if len(word) != 5: continue
    for i, argv in enumerate(sys.argv):
      if i < 5 and argv != '_' and argv[0] != '-' and argv.lower() != word[i]: break
      if i < 5 and argv[0] == '-' and (argv.lower()[1] == word[i] or argv.lower()[1] not in word): break
      if i >= 5 and argv.lower() in word: break
    else:
      print(word)