Trying to come up with python anagram function

Question

What I\'m trying to do is if I have a list like:

[\"lime\", \"mile\", \"liem\", \"tag\", \"gat\", \"goat\", \"math\"]

I want to write a functio

Answer 1

an approach identifying the words by the frozenset of the characters:

from collections import defaultdict

wordlist = ["lime", "mile", "liem", "tag", "gat", "goat", "math"]

worddict = defaultdict(list) 
for word in wordlist:
    worddict[frozenset(word)].append(word)

anagrams = [words for words in worddict.values() if len(words) > 1]
print(anagrams)

# [['lime', 'mile', 'liem'], ['tag', 'gat']]

the output is not yet quite what you wanted, but flattening that list is easy if you prefer that.

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update after comments:

the solution above will not handle words with repeating characters well. but this will (this time the key of the dictionary is just the string consisting of the sorted letters):

for word in wordlist:
    worddict[''.join(sorted(word))].append(word)