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# Natural Language Toolkit: Word Finder
#
# Copyright (C) 2001-2012 NLTK Project
# Author: Steven Bird <sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au>
# URL: <http://www.nltk.org/>
# For license information, see LICENSE.TXT
# Simplified from PHP version by Robert Klein <brathna@gmail.com>
# http://fswordfinder.sourceforge.net/
from __future__ import print_function
import random
# reverse a word with probability 0.5
def revword(word):
if random.randint(1,2) == 1:
return word[::-1]
return word
# try to insert word at position x,y; direction encoded in xf,yf
def step(word, x, xf, y, yf, grid):
for i in range(len(word)):
if grid[xf(i)][yf(i)] != "" and grid[xf(i)][yf(i)] != word[i]:
return False
for i in range(len(word)):
grid[xf(i)][yf(i)] = word[i]
return True
# try to insert word at position x,y, in direction dir
def check(word, dir, x, y, grid, rows, cols):
if dir==1:
if x-len(word)<0 or y-len(word)<0:
return False
return step(word, x, lambda i:x-i, y, lambda i:y-i, grid)
elif dir==2:
if x-len(word)<0:
return False
return step(word, x, lambda i:x-i, y, lambda i:y, grid)
elif dir==3:
if x-len(word)<0 or y+(len(word)-1)>=cols:
return False
return step(word, x, lambda i:x-i, y, lambda i:y+i, grid)
elif dir==4:
if y-len(word)<0:
return False
return step(word, x, lambda i:x, y, lambda i:y-i, grid)
def wordfinder(words, rows=20, cols=20, attempts=50,
alph='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'):
"""
Attempt to arrange words into a letter-grid with the specified
number of rows and columns. Try each word in several positions
and directions, until it can be fitted into the grid, or the
maximum number of allowable attempts is exceeded. Returns a tuple
consisting of the grid and the words that were successfully
placed.
:param words: the list of words to be put into the grid
:type words: list
:param rows: the number of rows in the grid
:type rows: int
:param cols: the number of columns in the grid
:type cols: int
:param attempts: the number of times to attempt placing a word
:type attempts: int
:param alph: the alphabet, to be used for filling blank cells
:type alph: list
:rtype: tuple
"""
# place longer words first
words.sort(cmp=lambda x,y:cmp(len(x),len(y)), reverse=True)
grid = [] # the letter grid
used = [] # the words we used
# initialize the grid
for i in range(rows):
grid.append([""] * cols)
# try to place each word
for word in words:
word = word.strip().upper() # normalize
save = word # keep a record of the word
word = revword(word)
for attempt in range(attempts):
r = random.randint(0, len(word))
dir = random.choice([1,2,3,4])
x = random.randint(0,rows)
y = random.randint(0,cols)
if dir==1: x+=r; y+=r
elif dir==2: x+=r
elif dir==3: x+=r; y-=r
elif dir==4: y+=r
if 0<=x<rows and 0<=y<cols:
if check(word, dir, x, y, grid, rows, cols):
# used.append((save, dir, x, y, word))
used.append(save)
break
# Fill up the remaining spaces
for i in range(rows):
for j in range(cols):
if grid[i][j] == '':
grid[i][j] = random.choice(alph)
return grid, used
def word_finder():
from nltk.corpus import words
wordlist = words.words()
random.shuffle(wordlist)
wordlist = wordlist[:200]
wordlist = [w for w in wordlist if 3 <= len(w) <= 12]
grid, used = wordfinder(wordlist)
print("Word Finder\n")
for i in range(len(grid)):
for j in range(len(grid[i])):
print(grid[i][j], end=' ')
print()
print()
for i in range(len(used)):
print("%d:" % (i+1), used[i])
if __name__ == '__main__':
word_finder()
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