Challenge to find permutations of words within a scrambled text file

miner.py

text = open('scrambled.txt', 'r').read()
words = ['miner', 'willy', 'andre', 'jet', 'set', 'bug', 'byte']

def permute(string):
    result = []

    if len(string) == 1:
        result = [string]
    else:
        for i, char in enumerate(string):
            for permutation in permute(string[:i] + string[i + 1:]):
                result += [char + permutation]

    return result

def miner(words, text):
    matches = {word: 0 for word in words}

    for word in words:
        for permutation in permute(word):
            matches[word] += text.count(permutation)

    return matches

print miner(words, text)

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