Question

Write a program IN PYTHON that checks the spelling of all words in a file. It should read each word of a file and check whether it is contained in a word list. A word list available below, called words.txt. The program should print out all words that it cannot find in the word list.

Requirements

Your program should implement the follow functions:

• main()

The main function should prompt the user for a path to the dictionary file and a path to the file with words that need to be checked. It should then call check_words and use the list returned to print out all the words that were misspelled.

• check_words(dictionary, file_to_check)

The check_words function has two string parameters that contain the file path to the dictionary and file to be spell checked respectively. This function should open both files and check that all words in the file_to_check are also listed in the dictionary file. After checking each word in file_to_check, a list containing each misspelled word should be returned.

When performing the comparison to check, be sure to convert the word you are checking to lowercase so that you avoid any case issues (e.g. 'a' != 'A').

Answer 1

spelling.py

def check_words(dictionary, file_to_check):

dictonary = open(dictionary, "r")
myFile = open(file_to_check, "r")

file1Arr = []
file2Arr = []

# get words from file to list
for word in dictonary.read().split():
file1Arr.append(word)
for word in myFile.read().split():
file2Arr.append(word)
correctWords = []
  
# get correct words from file to list
for i in file1Arr:
for j in file2Arr:
if i.lower() == j.lower():
correctWords.append(i)   
break
inCorrectWords =[]
# remove correct words to keep incorrect words only

for i in correctWords:
if i in file2Arr:
file2Arr.remove(i)
inCorrectWords=file2Arr
# Print list
print("Spelling correct words")
print(correctWords)
print("Misspelled words")
print(inCorrectWords)

dictonary=input("Enter dictonary file name ")
file_to_check=input("Enter file to check ")
check_words(dictonary,file_to_check)

Output

words.txt

apple
Orange
banana
Blackberry
Blackcurrant
Black sapote
Blueberry
Crab apples
Currant
Cherry

myFIle.txt

apple
Orange
banana
Blackberry
Blackcurrant
Black sapote
Blueberry
Crab apples
Currant
Cherry