This relatively lightweight program will take a .txt file of English words and the criteria of a round of the New York Times' Spelling Bee and both print and output a file containing a subset of English words that meet said criteria. The New York Times' Spelling Bee can be found at the following URL: https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee

• To run the program, simply run spelling_bee_solver.py, either using the command python on the command line (while in the same directory as the source files), or the IDE of your choice

  • This program was written in Python 3.8.6

• This program requires the provision of 1 (one) command line argument:

  • The command line argument should be the name of the desired input (text) file (including the .txt extension) containing (newline-delimited) English words to parse
    • e.g.: dictionary.txt
    • The desired file should be placed in the root of this project
      • If the file is placed in a project subdirectory, the file can still be specified via relative pathing
        • e.g.: If you were to place dictionary.txt in a new subdirectory called data, .\data\dictionary.txt would be the correct argument to provide

• Failure to follow these instructions will result in the program writing a brief error message to console and immediately halting

• After (successfully) executing the program, it will:
  • Write the results to console
  • Output the results to spelling_bee_words.txt
    • The output (text) file is found in the project root
• Note that generating new results will overwrite any existing results