updtaed with helper.py

compund search.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
__author__ = 'Ernest'

from fuzzywuzzy import fuzz
from fuzzywuzzy import process
import helper
import sys

reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')


new_search = raw_input("Enter the name of a compound > ")

# create an empty list of all the compounds - this is kept in the coupound.txt file
compounds_in_list = []

for word in helper.wordlist:
    compounds_in_list.append(word)  # add the compounds to the list

# print compounds_in_list

c = process.extract(new_search, compounds_in_list, limit=5)

print "The names of the compounds that are the same or similar to " + "\"" + new_search + "\"" + "are:"
print c