Word Ladder Example Code

class Vertex:
    def __init__(self,key):
        self.id = key
        self.connectedTo = {}

    def addNeighbor(self,nbr,weight=0):
        self.connectedTo[nbr] = weight

    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.id) + ‘ connectedTo: ‘ + str([x.id for x in self.connectedTo])

    def getConnections(self):
        return self.connectedTo.keys()

    def getId(self):
        return self.id

    def getWeight(self,nbr):
        return self.connectedTo[nbr]

class Graph:
    def __init__(self):
        self.vertList = {}
        self.numVertices = 0

    def addVertex(self,key):
        self.numVertices = self.numVertices + 1
        newVertex = Vertex(key)
        self.vertList[key] = newVertex
        return newVertex

    def getVertex(self,n):
        if n in self.vertList:
            return self.vertList[n]
        else:
            return None

    def __contains__(self,n):
        return n in self.vertList

    def addEdge(self,f,t,cost=0):
        if f not in self.vertList:
            nv = self.addVertex(f)
        if t not in self.vertList:
            nv = self.addVertex(t)
        self.vertList[f].addNeighbor(self.vertList[t], cost)

    def getVertices(self):
        return self.vertList.keys()

    def __iter__(self):
        return iter(self.vertList.values())

def buildGraph(wordFile):
    d = {}
    g = Graph()
    
    wfile = open(wordFile,‘r‘)
    # create buckets of words that differ by one letter
    for line in wfile:
        print line
        word = line[:-1]
        print word
        for i in range(len(word)):
            bucket = word[:i] + ‘_‘ + word[i+1:]
            if bucket in d:
                d[bucket].append(word)
            else:
                d[bucket] = [word]
    # add vertices and edges for words in the same bucket
    for bucket in d.keys():
        for word1 in d[bucket]:
            for word2 in d[bucket]:
                if word1 != word2:
                    g.addEdge(word1,word2)
    return g