import collections, pprint, time, os start_time = time.time() print('creating word list...') path = os.path.split(os.path.realpath(__file__)) word_list = sorted(list(set([word.strip().lower() for word in open(path[0] + '/words')]))) def signature(word): return ''.join(sorted(word)) word_bysig = collections.defaultdict(list) for word in word_list: word_bysig[signature(word)].append(word) def anagram(myword): return word_bysig[signature(myword)] print('finding anagrams...') all_anagrams = {word: anagram(word) for word in word_list if len(anagram(word)) > 1} print('writing anagrams to file...') with open('anagrams.txt', 'w') as file: file.write('all_anagrams = ') file.write(pprint.pformat(all_anagrams)) total_time = round(time.time() - start_time, 2) print('Done [', total_time, 'seconds ]')