On Jan 7, 2:54 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 7, 4:37 pm, dgoldsmith_89 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can anyone point me to a downloadable open source English dictionary > > suitable for programmatic use with python: I'm programming a puzzle > > generator, and I need to be able to generate more or less complete > > lists of English words, alphabetized. Thanks! DG > > www.puzzlers.orghas numerous word lists & dictionarys in text > format that can be downloaded. I recommend you insert them into > some form of database. I have most of them in an Access db and > it's 95 MB. That's a worse case as I also have some value-added > stuff, the OSPD alone would be a lot smaller. > > <http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=solving:wordlists:start>
Sorry for my ignorance: I can query an Access DB w/ standard SQL queries (and this is how I would access it w/ Python)? DG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list