I am writing a program to find the anagrams from a list of words and output the anagrams in different lists but in an alphabetical order

Question

some_list = ['bad', 'app', 'sad', 'mad', 'dab','pge', 'bda', 'ppa', 'das', 'dba']

new_list = []
from collections import OrderedDict
for ele in OrderedDict.fromkeys("".join(sorted(ele)) for ele in some_list):
    temp = []
    for s in some_list:
        if ele == ''.join(sorted(s)):
            temp.append(s)
    if len(temp) > 1:
        new_list.append(temp)

for i in new_list:
    i.sort()
    print(i)

The output is:

['bad', 'bda', 'dab', 'dba']
['app', 'ppa']
['das', 'sad']

I want the output to be:

['app', 'ppa']
['bad', 'bda', 'dab', 'dba']
['das', 'sad']

How do I change the code to get the right output?

duplicate? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30246225/create-lists-of-anagrams-from-a-list-of-words — dermen, May 15 '15 at 09:08

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered May 15 '15 at 08:41

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sort your new_list before printing using sorted

for i in sorted(new_list):
    i.sort()
    print(i)

This will print your output as expected

answered May 15 '15 at 08:41

Bhargav Rao

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '15 at 08:55

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sort before you create the words:

from collections import OrderedDict
some_list.sort()
for ele in OrderedDict.fromkeys("".join(sorted(ele)) for ele in some_list):
   ...........

answered May 15 '15 at 08:55

Padraic Cunningham

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@BhargavRao, yep. Better to do it once at the start. – Padraic Cunningham May 15 '15 at 09:22

I am writing a program to find the anagrams from a list of words and output the anagrams in different lists but in an alphabetical order

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