Anagrams
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Two or more words can be composed of the same characters, but in a different order. Using the word list at http://www.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt, find the sets of words that share the same characters that contain the most words in them.
Python
Python 2.5 shell input (IDLE) <python>>>> import urllib >>> from collections import defaultdict >>> words = urllib.urlopen('http://www.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt').read().split() >>> len(words) 25104 >>> acronym = defaultdict(list) # map sorted chars to acronyms >>> for word in words: acronym[str(sorted(word))].append( word )
>>> count, max_acronyms = max((len(acr), acr) for acr in acronym.itervalues())
>>> for acr in acronym.itervalues():
if len(acr) >= count:
print acr
['caret', 'carte', 'cater', 'crate', 'trace']
['alger', 'glare', 'lager', 'large', 'regal']
['evil', 'levi', 'live', 'veil', 'vile']
['angel', 'angle', 'galen', 'glean', 'lange']
['elan', 'lane', 'lean', 'lena', 'neal']
['abel', 'able', 'bale', 'bela', 'elba']
>>> count
5
>>></python>