http-get-shakespeare.py

# Program based on example code from composingprograms.com                                                                    
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# - Get a text document from the Web containing works of Shakespeare.                                                         
# - Count the words in the document and display the result.                                                                   
# - Display the list of words that are six-letters long and that written                                                      
#   backwards form a word that is also included in the document.                                                              
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# NOTE: This code takes about 6-8 seconds to run in my machine.                                                               
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#       Also note that the list of words obtained with split in this case does                                                
#       not include words only but also punctuation marks (the original code                                                  
#       from the book does the same).                                                                                         

from urllib.request import urlopen


shakespeare = urlopen('http://composingprograms.com/shakespeare.txt')
words = set(shakespeare.read().decode().split())
print(len(words))

for w in words:
    if len(w) == 6 and w[::-1] in words:
        print(w)