# unscramble.py
# Steve Marschner (srm2), Lillian Lee (ljl2)
# Mar 3, 2014
"""Anagram solver for CS1110 Lab 6.

   The purpose of this program is to solve anagrams, like the ones that
    form part of many word games and word puzzles.  For instance, given
    the string "opython" we would like the program to tell us it is an
    anagram of "typhoon" -- meaning that it contains the same letters, but
    possibly in a different order.

    The script is used by running it from the command line with a word
    or words as arguments.  For instance,

       python unscramble.py opython

    should produce the output

       opython is an anagram of typhoon

    If the user provides several words, the script should attempt to
    find anagrams for all of them.

    The input words are converted to lowercase before anagram solving begins.
"""
import sys

def sort_string_letters(s):
    """Return a copy of s with the characters sorted in alphabetical order.

    When capital letters are involved, 'sorted' here means that all uppercase
    letters go before lowercase letters.  Ex: 'bcD' -> 'Dbc'.
    """
    # Implementation note: the spec above just means that you can use
    # Python's regular old sort function, because that's how it handles
    # capitalization.
    pass


def unscramble(anagram):
    """Attempts to unscramble an anagram of an English word.

    If <anagram> contains a permutation of the letters in an English word,
    print the word. If not, print an error message.
    """

    #temporary code to help check that Section 2's task is accomplished.
    print "running unscramble function on " + anagram


# The name of a text file containing a list of words, one word per line.
DICT_FILE = 'small_dict.txt'

# When you are confident that your code is working, uncomment the
#       DICT_FILE = 'scowl-utf-8.txt'
# line below to get access to a "real" dictionary.
# We are using a word list from Kevin Atkinson's SCOWL (Spell Checker
# Oriented Word Lists) project, see wordlist.sourceforge.net.
#
# TODO: uncomment this line when ready!
# DICT_FILE = 'scowl_utf-8.txt'




# TODO: fix/replace these stubbed-in assignment statements
dictionary = []
rep_dict = []


if __name__ == '__main__':

    # This is temporary code to help you understand how for-loops can be
    # applied to the list of command-line arguments.
    # TODO: replace with different code as stated in handout
    print 'sys.argv is: ' + str(sys.argv)
    for item in sys.argv:
        print item
        print '    length of ' + item + ' is ' + str(len(item))

    # Temporary code: command that prints out usage message to demonstrate
    # what a usage message should look like
    print "Usage: python unscramble.py <word> [...]"