Get all words matching a pattern

wordmatch.py

import re

def match(pattern):
  """
  >>> match(' x ')
  ['axe', 'oxy']
  >>> match('c  m n l')
  ['communal', 'criminal', 'crumenal', 'culminal']
  """
  r = re.compile('^' + re.sub(' ', '.', pattern) + '$', re.IGNORECASE)
  with open('/usr/share/dict/words') as f:
    return [w for w in [w.strip() for w in f.readlines()] if r.match(w)]

if __name__ == "__main__":
  import doctest
  doctest.testmod()