anagram.py

#returns true if strings a and b contain the same letter count
# (i.e., a can be rearranged to form b)
def compare(a,b):
    return sorted([i for i in a]) == sorted([i for i in b])

def main():
    contents = []
    # open the file and separate into lines
    with open("enable1.txt", "r") as f:
        contents = f.readlines()

    # strip trailing \n (not sure why it's there after the call to readlines but whatever)
    contents = [word[:-1] for word in contents]

    target = "streampa"

    for word in contents:
        if compare(word, target):
            print(word)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()