anagram finder / dict mapping question
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umpsumps at gmail.com
Fri May 9 14:40:59 EDT 2008
On May 9, 1:45 am, cokofree... at gmail.com wrote:
> >>> key = ''.join(sorted(word))
>
> I tend to strip and lower the word as well, otherwise "Hello" and
> "hello" do not compare...depends on what you want though!
> Plus you might get a lot of "word\n" as keys...
>
> My technique is the this way
>
> def anagram_finder(words):
> anagrams = {}
> for word in words:
> word = word.strip()
> key = ''.join(sorted(word.lower()))
> anagrams.setdefault(key, []).append(word)
> return anagrams
What would be the best method to print the top results, the one's that
had the highest amount of anagrams?? Create a new histogram dict?
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