crosswords helper program

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

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 )

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