Using Python, find anagrams for a list of words

Question

If I have a list of strings for example:

[\"car\", \"tree\", \"boy\", \"girl\", \"arc\"...]

What should I do in order to find anagrams in t

Answer 1

One solution is to sort the word you're searching anagrams for (for example using sorted), sort the alternative and compare those.

So if you would be searching for anagrams of 'rac' in the list ['car', 'girl', 'tofu', 'rca'], your code could look like this:

word = sorted('rac')
alternatives = ['car', 'girl', 'tofu', 'rca']

for alt in alternatives:
    if word == sorted(alt):
        print alt