Chris F.A. Johnson a écrit : > On 2005-10-12, gg wrote: > >>I plan to write a program in Python in order to help me doing >>crosswords, I was wondering if such a program already existed. >> >>Basically it will get the number of letters of the word (5, 10, 12...) >>then the letters known (B in second letter, E in 5th letter...) and then >>search in a dictionary the words matching this criteria > > > import os > pattern = "B...E.." > wordfile = "/usr/share/dict/words" > cmd = "grep -i '\<" + pattern + "\>' " + wordfile > os.system( cmd ) > thanks to all, that should do the trick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list