Open source English dictionary to use programmatically w/ python

[dgoldsmith_89]

On Jan 7, 2:54 pm, "mensana... at aol.com" <mensana... at aol.com> wrote:
> On Jan 7, 4:37 pm, dgoldsmith_89 <d.l.goldsm... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Can anyone point me to a downloadable open source English dictionary
> > suitable for programmatic use with python: I'm programming a puzzle
> > generator, and I need to be able to generate more or less complete
> > lists of English words, alphabetized.  Thanks!  DG
>
> www.puzzlers.orghas numerous word lists & dictionarys in text
> format that can be downloaded. I recommend you insert them into
> some form of database. I have most of them in an Access db and
> it's 95 MB. That's a worse case as I also have some value-added
> stuff, the OSPD alone would be a lot smaller.
>
> <http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=solving:wordlists:start>

Sorry for my ignorance: I can query an Access DB w/ standard SQL
queries (and this is how I would access it w/ Python)?

DG