Re: [libreoffice-users] testing out 2 new large word list English dictionaries.

Thanks Winston

I was one day going to look into learning Python, but I am afraid that 
my programming days are over.  The strokes damaged parts of my brain 
that dealt with communication skills and programming skills, among 
others.  I tried to relearn C/C++, but it was not going to happen.

I would like to see a "simple" working code in Python though.  If I ever 
decided to try to retrain the programming part of my brain, I was told 
to try Python.

The dictionary word lists are not in an "special" type of array, so far 
as I can tell.  The list sample below is part of an Oxford English "dic" 
file.  After the "/" is the codes for the system to use.  I really have 
not found a good reference to what these codes each indicate, except 
some appear to be suffix indicators.  The word lists I now use do not 
have codes, but still work well.  When I dealt with word lists and code 
indicators, these codes would shrink the amount of space you need to 
store the dictionary lists.  Back when RAM/ROM was in the price range of 
32 to 64MB for $100 or more, the more space you can save, the better.  
Now we all get sloppy in our code size.  Since we do not need to have a 
chess game fit onto a single 1.44 MB floppy, we do not write that 
"tight" codes.  As long as it is quick enough, correct?
Well not everyone is like that now.


abbreviation/M
abdicate/DNGSn
Abelard/M
abider/M
Abidjan
ablaze
abloom
aboveground
abrader/M
Abram/M
abreaction/MS
abrogator/MS
abscond/DRSG
absinthe/MS
absoluteness/S
absorbency/SM
abstract/ShTVDPiGY
absurdness/S



On 11/05/2011 11:05 PM, Winston C. Yang wrote:
> webmaster:
>
> Possibly a convenient language for comparing the word lists would be 
> Python.
>
> --- Python has a data structure "dict" (dictionary, hashtable, 
> associative array).
>
> --- Python has a data structure "set".
>
> If you wish, I can email you short, working, example code.
>
> Winston
>
> On 11/05/2011 10:08 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
> > If I still could remember my basic C programming, I would write a 
> > program comparing the different word lists to see which words are not 
> > common, but after 3 strokes I have not programmed such a package in 
> > many years.  Actually a few months after the last stroke.


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