Daily Programmer Day #107 Intermediate Challenge

daily107i.py

import random

letters = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z', ' ']
word_list = []
word_lengths = []

text_file = "whatever.txt"
f = open(text_file, 'r')
for line in f:
    line = line.replace("\r\n", "").strip()
    word_list.append(line)
    word_lengths.append(len(line))

max_word_length = max(word_lengths)

iteration_count = 0
word_count = 0
word = ""
#stops it at 20 words, so we're not here all day
while word_count < 20:
    iteration_count+=1
    random_letter = letters[random.randint(0,len(letters)-1)]
    if random_letter ==  " ":
        for x in word_list:
            if x == word:
                print word
                word_count+=1
        word = ""
    else:
        #word is longer than the max word length, start a new word (saves time)
        if len(word)>max_word_length:
            word = ""
        else:
            word += random_letter