Get a list of all English words in python

The nltk library for python contains a lot of useful data in addition to it's functions. One convient data set is a list of all english words, accessible like so:

from nltk.corpus import words
word_list = words.words()
# prints 236736
print len(word_list)

You will probably first have to download the word list using nltk's download() function. The following code should give you a GUI window to select the data you want (look for "words" under the "Corpora" tab):

import nltk
nltk.download()

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