QUESTION 3

For this question, you'll need to download the textfile that is mentioned in Chapter 9 of Think Python. The list contains 113,809 valid crossword puzzle words and is an excellent resource for finding all the words that meet a specific criteria. Right click (or Control click on a Mac) on this link and then save it in the location where your Python files are located as words.txt. Then, open a new Python file and start by typing the following two lines, which will give you a list with each word as a string (note that, if your searches ever get too slow, you could convert the list to a set using wordset = set(wordlist), but I think a list should work fine.)

with open("words.txt", "r+") as f: wordlist = f.read().splitlines()

Now, you'll need to add some additional code in order to answer the following question:

"What 9-letter word has the second letter 'a', fifth letter 'e', and seventh letter 'g'?"

Note: There's only one such word in this entire list!

QUESTION 5

Using the same wordlist and starter code from Question 3, answer the following question:

"How many words on this wordlist begin and end with the letter a?"

Hint: It's quite a few, so be sure to find a way for your code to do the counting instead of you!