#!/usr/bin/python3 import sys words = [ ] for filename in sys.argv[1:]: for line in open(filename): line = line.strip().lower() try: words[len(line)][line] = None except IndexError: while len(words) <= len(line): words.append({}) for i in range(len(words)): words[i] = sorted(words[i].keys()) print('words =', words)