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@rothos rothos released this 19 Oct 09:06
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v3.0.0
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A big update: a new word list, whole-word matching, and tools for word games (anagrams, letter racks with blank tiles, Spelling Bee, Wordle).

Breaking changes

  • Expressions now match the whole word. In 2.x, lx cat matched any word containing "cat"; to get that behavior now, use lx -s cat.
  • Inflected forms (plurals, conjugations, etc) are now searched too; use -b to search base forms only, as in 2.x.
  • New word list: SCOWL replaces AGID, so results differ. It adds everyday words AGID was missing ("a", "of", "from"), British and other spellings, and obscurity levels. The default level (-L 70) leaves out very obscure words; use -L 95 to search everything.
  • Requires Python 3.9 or later.

New options

  • -f / -a: words spelled from given letters / exact anagrams, with -r to reuse letters and ? or . as blank tiles: lx -a 'retain?'
  • -l: length (5, 4-7, 5-); -o: sort by length or common; -L: obscurity level; -p: phrases like "sperm whale"; -c: case-sensitive
  • Options can go anywhere on the command line.

Fixes

  • Output no longer crashes when piped or redirected; it falls back to one word per line.
  • Invalid regular expressions give a short error instead of a traceback.
  • Apostrophes in expressions are no longer stripped.
  • -i with -n prints the header line; -u and -U can no longer be combined.

Lexitron can also be used as a Python library: from lexitron import search. See the README for examples.

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