Longest words in alphabetical and reverse alphabetical order.

alphabetical_order.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Prompt to o3-mini-high: The file url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dwyl/english-words/master/words.txt" contains "all" english words. I want a Python script that prints out the longest word with letters in alphabetical order (e.g., "abc") AND reverse alphabetical order (e.g., "cba"). Convert all words to lowercase and replace hyphens with nothing before doing this. The script should be executable immediately, so you need to provide code for downloading the file.

import urllib.request


def is_alphabetical(word):
    return list(word) == sorted(word)


def is_reverse_alphabetical(word):
    return list(word) == sorted(word, reverse=True)


def main():
    url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dwyl/english-words/master/words.txt"
    # Download the file
    with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:
        text = response.read().decode("utf-8")
    words = text.splitlines()

    longest_alpha = ""
    longest_rev_alpha = ""

    for word in words:
        # Preprocess the word: trim, convert to lowercase, and remove hyphens
        word = word.strip().lower().replace("-", "")
        if not word:
            continue

        if is_alphabetical(word) and len(word) > len(longest_alpha):
            longest_alpha = word
        if is_reverse_alphabetical(word) and len(word) > len(longest_rev_alpha):
            longest_rev_alpha = word

    print("Longest alphabetical word:", longest_alpha)
    print("Longest reverse alphabetical word:", longest_rev_alpha)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
    
# Output:
# > Longest alphabetical word: aegilops
# > Longest reverse alphabetical word: spoonfeed