Late acceptance hill-climbing, a snake with a camera

It’s a Saturday morning, and suddenly I wonder: what’s the most compressible list of eight distinct 8-letter English words? Let’s write some Python code. import random , re , zlib words = open ( "/usr/share/dict/words" ). read (). split () words = [ w for w in words if re . match ( "^[a-z]{8}$" , w )] N = 8 def compress ( w ): return zlib . compress ( " " . join ( w ). encode ( "utf-8" ), level =…