Produce sample words

Use the sowpods file to generate a list of words that fulfills a special condition (eg length, starting letter) Use is made of the function random.sample(population, k) to take a unique sample of a larger list.

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    import random 

    # get 7 random words of length 5, that start with a given begin-letter 
    for beginletter in list('aeiou'): 
        f=open("/home/willem/20141009_sowpod/sowpods.txt","r") 
        allwords=[]
        for line in f:
            line=line.rstrip('\n')
            if len(line)==5 and line.startswith(beginletter): 
                allwords.append(line)
        f.close()
        print random.sample( allwords, 7 ) 

Output:

 ['argot', 'along', 'addax', 'azans', 'aboil', 'aband']
 ['erred', 'ester', 'ekkas', 'entry', 'eldin', 'eruvs']
 ['imino', 'islet', 'inurn', 'iller', 'idiom', 'izars']
 ['oches', 'outer', 'odist', 'orbit', 'ofays', 'outed']
 ['unlaw', 'upjet', 'upend', 'urged', 'urent', 'uncus']