Sorry, didn't document my code well enough.
Here is the code with an example.
Yingjie
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from itertools import permutations
def solve(puzzle):
"""solve alphametic puzzles in just 9 lines of code.
Make sure each operator is seperated from the words by
white-spaces, e.g.:
>>> solve('send + more == money')
"""
words = [w for w in puzzle.split() if w.isalpha()]
nonzeros = {w[0] for w in words}
others = {a for a in ''.join(words) if a not in nonzeros}
chars = [ord(c) for c in nonzeros]+[ord(c) for c in others]
assert len(chars) <= 10, 'Too many letters'
for guess in permutations('0123456789', len(chars)):
if '0' not in guess[:len(nonzeros)]:
equation = puzzle.translate(dict(zip(chars, guess)))
if eval(equation): return puzzle, equation
if __name__ == '__main__':
print ('\n'.join(solve("send + more == money")))
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