import collections, pprint, time, os start_time = time.time() print("creating word list...") path = os.path.split(os.path.realpath(__file__)) with open(path[0] + "/words") as f: word_list = sorted(list(set([word.strip().lower() for word in f]))) 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 ]"))