Handy-dandy acronym finder for any text, including a UI designed to work with Microsoft Word.

find_all_acronyms finds basic and expanded acronyms

find_acronyms finds basic acronyms. Basic acronyms are any word consisting of two or more capital letters.

find_expanded_acronyms finds expanded acronyms. Expanded acronyms are strings of the form "My Acronym Company (MAC)": the expansion followed by the (basic) acronym in parentheses.

These functions all return a dict. Keys are the acronym. Each value is a list containing all expansions found.

Should run under Python 2 or 3. Tested on Python 3.

Unit tests: python3 -m unittest test/test_acronym_finding.py

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