Alright, so today I’m gonna walk you through something I was messing around with the other day – it’s all about finding words that end in specific letters. Sounds simple, right? Well, it kinda is, but let me show you how I did it.
First things first, I needed a word list. I just grabbed a plain text file with a bunch of English words, one word per line. You can find these things all over the internet, no big deal. I think the one I used had like, a hundred thousand words or something, plenty to play with.
Next up, the coding part. I’m not a super fancy coder, so I just used Python. Super easy to read and mess with. I started by opening that word list file and loading all the words into a list. Basically, I just read each line and stuck it into a list called ‘words’.
Then came the fun part – filtering! I wanted to find all the words ending in, say, “le”. So, I looped through my ‘words’ list, and for each word, I checked if it ended with “le”. Python has this handy endswith() method that makes this super simple. If it did end with “le”, I added it to a new list called ‘le_words’.
Here’s a snippet of the code, just to give you an idea:
words = []with open('*', 'r') as f:for line in f:*(*()) # Remove any extra spacesle_words = []for word in words:if *('le'):le_*(word)
After the loop finished, ‘le_words’ had all the words I was looking for. I just printed out the first few to make sure it worked. And bam! There they were: “able”, “apple”, “handle”, and a bunch of others.
But I didn’t stop there. I thought it would be cool to make it more flexible. So, I changed the code to ask the user what letters they wanted to search for. That way, you could type in “ing” or “ed” or whatever, and it would find all the words ending in those letters.
I basically just added an input() line to ask the user for the ending letters, and then used that input in the endswith() method. Super simple. Made it way more useful, too.
Finally, I added a bit to write the results to a new file. That way, you could save the list of “le_words” (or whatever) to a file and use it later. Just opened a new file in write mode (‘w’), looped through the ‘le_words’ list, and wrote each word to the file, one word per line.
And that’s pretty much it! A super simple little project, but it was kinda fun to put together. Plus, it’s a nice example of how you can use basic Python to do some text processing. Maybe you could use it to analyze song lyrics or something? Who knows!