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gistfile1.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
words_file = "/usr/share/dict/words"
suffix = sys.argv[1]
candidates = set(w.strip()[:-len(suffix)] for w in open(words_file, 'rb') if w.strip().endswith(suffix))
words = [w.strip() for w in open(words_file, 'rb') if w.strip() in candidates]
print '\n'.join(words)
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