[Tutor] How to find reverse pair words in a list of Words that has to be accessed through a URL

[Chetan Sai]

Hi Don

I'm a beginner in Python Programming.

I'm using python 3. I wrote a program that checks whether given two words
are reverse pair or not and outputs TRUE/FALSE.

*def reverse_pair(a,b):*
*    return list(a)==list(reversed(list(b)))*
*
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*
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But how to write a program that finds all the reverse pairs in the given
word list, eg: how to find the reverse pair words in a list of 20 words.
And that to how to access those list of words form a URL.

Because with the above code we can only find out whether the given 2 words
are reverse pair or not, that's it.

I'm thinking of using the below code which is written for Python 2.7.


 Code:

def reverse_pair(word_list, word):
    """Checks whether a reversed word appears in word_list.

    word_list: list of strings
    word: string
    """
    rev_word = word[::-1]
    return in_bisect(word_list, rev_word)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    word_list = make_word_list()

    for word in word_list:
        if reverse_pair(word_list, word): print word, word[::-1]



On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Don Jennings <dfjennings at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Apr 19, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Chetan Sai wrote:
>
> > Here is my question:
> >
> > "Two words are a “reverse pair” if each is the reverse of the other.
> Write a program that finds all the reverse pairs in the word list. The word
> list can be downloaded athttp://www.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/pocket.txt"
>
> Really, that's not a question, but we are happy to answer questions :>)
> Oh, there's your question in the subject line. What have you tried thus
> far? Have you given any thought to what steps you might have to take to
> solve this task?
>
> Take care,
> Don
>
>


-- 
Thanks & Regards

Sai Chetan Pothula
408-203-3323


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Don Jennings <dfjennings at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Apr 19, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Chetan Sai wrote:
>
> > Here is my question:
> >
> > "Two words are a “reverse pair” if each is the reverse of the other.
> Write a program that finds all the reverse pairs in the word list. The word
> list can be downloaded athttp://www.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/pocket.txt"
>
> Really, that's not a question, but we are happy to answer questions :>)
> Oh, there's your question in the subject line. What have you tried thus
> far? Have you given any thought to what steps you might have to take to
> solve this task?
>
> Take care,
> Don
>
>


-- 
Thanks & Regards

Sai Chetan Pothula
408-203-3323
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