anagram finder / dict mapping question

[dave]

This is what i've came up with.  My problem is that I can't get them to 
properly evaluate.. when  comparewords() runs it finds itself...  
Should I have the keys of mapdict iterate over itself?  Is that 
possible?

def annafind():
	fin = open('text.txt')		# file has one word per line
	mapdic = {}			# each word gets sorted & goes in here
	for line in fin:
		rawword = line.strip()
		word = list(rawword)
		word.sort()
		mapdic[''.join(word)] = 0
	return mapdic


def comparewords(): ***not working as intended
	fin = open('text.txt')
	for line in fin:
		line = line.strip()
		word = list(line)
		word.sort()
		sortedword = (''.join(word))
		if sortedword in mapdic:
			print line




On 2008-05-07 19:25:53 -0600, "Kam-Hung Soh" <kamhung.soh at gmail.com> said:

> On Thu, 08 May 2008 11:02:12 +1000, dave <squareswallower at 1ya2hoo3.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I wrote a program that takes a string sequence and finds all the words
> 
>> inside a text file (one word per line) and prints them:
>> 
>> def anagfind(letters): 	#find anagrams of these letters
>> 	fin = open('text.txt')	#one word per line file
>> 	wordbox = []		 #this is where the words will go
>> 	for line in fin:
>> 		word = line.strip()
>> 		count = 0
>> 		for char in letters:
>> 			if char not in word:
>> 				break
>> 			else:
>> 				count += 1
>> 			if count == len(word):
>> 				wordbox.append(word)
>> 	return wordbox
>> 
>> Now I'd like to modify the code to naturally find all anagrams inside
> a
>> wordlist.  What would be the best way to do this?  Using Hints?  Is it
> 
>> possible to iterate over dict keys?  How can I make a dict that maps
> 
>> from a set of letters to a list of words that are spelled from those
> 
>> letters?  Wouldn't I need to make the set of letters a key in a dict?
>> 
>> As always - Thanks for helping someone trying to learn...
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
> 
> Suggestion: for each word, sort their characters and use them as the
> dictionary key.  If two words have the same combination of characters,
> then they are anagrams.  For example: "edam" and "made" are anagrams
> because they have the letters 'a', 'd', 'e' and 'm'.
> 
> Refer "Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley.
> 
> --
> Kam-Hung Soh <a href="http://kamhungsoh.com/blog">Software Salariman</ a>