Description: A word search generator
As we were planning the PSF booth for PyCon US 2025 we discussed what the theme should be. After a relatively brief discussion, we settled on "Retro Gaming". As we discussed what that would look like we stumbled on the idea of including, in some way, word games and I had the idea that we should print up a word search that we could give to the people that came to the booth. The only thing was that I didn't know how to put one together. So I decided I could make something that generates one. This is that something. It takes a list of words and generates a word search from them. The current implementation does a square of letters but that could be changed. It allows you to specify whether the words can be placed on diagonals and whether they can be placed backwards.
I had a lot of fun with this one. My kids also had fun creating their own word searches and doing them. If you like word games, this could be a fun project that you can tinker with or just create your own word searches for fun.
You can now find this on PyPI and
install it by running pip install py-wordsearch-gen
Repo: https://github.com/brass75/wordsearch
Find it on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/py-wordsearch-gen/