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Given a word as argument this little program written in python finds all the permutations that have a meaning in the en_US dictionary
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#!/usr/bin/python | |
import sys | |
import pprint | |
from PyDictionary import PyDictionary | |
import itertools | |
def check(wordToCheck): | |
meaning = dictionary.meaning(wordToCheck) | |
if meaning: | |
pp.pprint(meaning) | |
results[wordToCheck] = meaning | |
if not meaning: | |
print("I'm sorry I couldn't find the meaning of the word "+ wordToCheck) | |
# MAIN | |
results = {} | |
pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4) | |
word = sys.argv[1] | |
dictionary=PyDictionary() | |
permutations = list(set(itertools.permutations([ch for ch in word]))) | |
print ("Checking " + str(len(permutations)) + " unique permutations") | |
for item in permutations: | |
permWord = ''.join(item) | |
print ("Check: " + permWord) | |
check(permWord) | |
print ("Found " +str(len(results))+ " results from " +str(len(permutations)) + " permutations:") | |
pp.pprint(results) |
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you can also change this line:
meaning = dictionary.meaning(wordToCheck)
with this:
meaning = dictionary.googlemeaning(wordToCheck)
to check results from google instead of from a classic dictionary.