[Edu-sig] fun w/ word list

[Danny Yoo]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Chris Meyers wrote:

> Yes, these are fun. In Python for fun, the user input module has some
> stuff like this. Mainly spell check in Python. If anyone needs a word
> list file you can download
> 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/py4fun/spell.tar.gz

Is this similar to the "words" text file that Don Knuth prepared for his
"Stanford Graphbase" project?

    http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/sgb.html

As one example, Knuth compiled a list of common 5-letter words that he
used to test combinatorial algorithms.  Perhaps this word list could be
incorporated into the py4fun project:

    ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/pub/sgb/words.dat