Added os.getcwd() to example script to make it more OS agnostic. Also…

… added strikethrough formatting and note regarding broken link in readme file.
dwyl · Mar 14, 2018 · 8e74ad0 · 8e74ad0
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ english-words
 A text file containing 466k English words.
 
 While searching for a list of english words (for an auto-complete tutorial)
-I found: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2213607/how-to-get-english-language-word-database which refers to http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/word-list-350000-simple-english-words-excel-readable
+I found: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2213607/how-to-get-english-language-word-database which refers to ~~http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/word-list-350000-simple-english-words-excel-readable~~ (link no longer available).
 
 No idea why infochimps put the word list inside an excel (.xls) file.
 

diff --git a/read_english_dictionary.py b/read_english_dictionary.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 def load_words():
     try:
-        filename = os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])+"\\"+"words_dictionary.json"
+        filename = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "words_dictionary.json")
         with open(filename,"r") as english_dictionary:
             valid_words = json.load(english_dictionary)
             return valid_words