How can i get a random word from the PyDictionary module in Python 2.7?

Question

I want to use this for a word guessing game and I have tried to write a text file to do so. Is there a cleaner way? Any help would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

I've done a word guessing game before and the easiest way I found to generate a random word was to have a dictionary text file (I used /usr/share/dict/words ) that I read into a list and used the random standard library to generate a random number that was bounded by the length of our word list and use the random number to pick a word from the list.

import random
filename = "/usr/share/dict/words"
candidates = [x.strip().lower() for x in open(filename,"r")]
word = candidates[(random.randint(0,len(candidates) - 1))]

You can also use requests to download a words file (eg english-words ) if you don't have/don't want to use /usr/share/dict/words

Answer 2

import requests
import random
def getRandomWord():
    word_url = 'https://itoven-ai.co/images/words.txt'
    r = requests.get(word_url, allow_redirects=True)
   #print(r.text.split("\n"))
    return random.choice(r.text.split("\n"))

Explanation: The words.txt file at this url I made available has a ton of words line by line, one word per line, so I get the text from this url and split by line. Then it uses random.choice to pick one of them. It's good.