wordle/lib.py

DEBUG = False
WORD_LENGTH = 5
ROUNDS = 6
INSTRUCTIONS = "Positional letters (green) are CAPITAL, non-positional (yellow) are small, others are blanks e.g.  SHe-r"
BLANK = "-"
DICTIONARY = '/usr/share/dict/words'


def cat_words(dictionary=DICTIONARY):
    if type(dictionary) is list:
        for word in dictionary:
            yield word
    else:
        with open(dictionary) as f:
            for word in f.readlines():
                # remove end of line
                word = word[:-1]
                # filter out five letter words
                if len(word) == WORD_LENGTH and "'" not in word and not word[0].isupper():
                    yield word