A naive implementation of an Anagram Generator

anagram.py

__author__ = "wasi0013"
import glob


def get_dictionary(path):
    """
        returns: a dictionary of words (with sorted string as key)
                 from files in the path
    """
    words = set()
    for filename in glob.glob(path):
        #print(filename)
        with open(filename,'r') as f:
                for new_word in iter(f):
                    words.add(new_word.strip('\n').strip("'s").lower())
    
    dictionary = dict()
    for word in words:
        key = "".join(sorted(word)).lower()
        if key not in dictionary:
            dictionary[key] = list()
        dictionary[key].append(word)
    return dictionary

def anagram(word, dictionary):
    """
        returns: a list of all anagram(s) of the word or None
    """
    key = "".join(sorted(word)).lower()
    if key in dictionary:
        return dictionary[key]


def main():

    path = "/usr/share/dict/*-english" #contains list of english words in ubuntu 
    dictionary = get_dictionary(path)
    print(anagram("silent", dictionary))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()