gistfile1.py

#the wordlist file is the SCOWL wordlist downloaded from : http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
file = open("./SCOWL/wordlist.txt")
words =[line[:-1] for line in file.readlines()] #remove the newline character.
file.close()



#basic anagram comparion algorithm
def AreSameCharacters(word1,word2):
    word1 = list(word1)
    word2 = list(word2)
    word1.sort()
    word2.sort()
    word1 = "".join(word1).lower()
    word2 = "".join(word2).lower()
    return word1==word2
def IsAnagramEqual(word1,word2):
    if (word1==word2):
        return False #we do not list the same word as an anagram :)
    if len(word1) != len(word2):
        return False
    if not AreSameCharacters(word1,word2):
        return False
    return True


#word input by user
word1 = str(raw_input("Please Input Your Word: ")).strip().lower()


#single word comparisons:
for word2 in words:
    if IsAnagramEqual(word1,word2):
        print word2