I was looking for help with a particular word in a crossword puzzle. All of the apps in the iPhone app store at the time were charging for this pleasure so I decided to write my own.
Using a script from here. I’ve converted it into a CGI based Apache Web Server script: Crossword Solver
Thanks to Stealthcopter for the simple but effective code.
So now I can run the script when I’m out and about just using the web browser.
Here’s the Python code which lives in the cgi-bin of the web server:
#!/usr/bin/python import cgi import cgitb; cgitb.enable() form=cgi.FieldStorage() word=form['c1'].value f=open('/usr/share/dict/words', 'r') resulthtml = """Content-Type: text/html\n <head></head> <body> Possible Words Are:<br> """ print resulthtml for line in f: line=line.strip() if len(line)==len(word): good=1 position=0 for letter in word: if not letter=='*': if not letter==line[position]: good=0 position+=1 if good==1: print line + "<br>" f.close() print "</body></html>"
Here’s a (very) simple piece of HTML as the basic web page. It will do as a starter. I’ll need to make this pretty so that it renders properly on the iPhone:
<head> </head> <body> <form action="/cgi-bin/crossword.py"> Enter Word. Use * for missing letters:<br> <input type="text" name="c1"> <br> <input type="submit"> <br> </form> </body> </html>
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