#!/usr/bin/python


#using a Dictionary even though don't need the lookup pair because
#I'm guessing that its internal searching will be faster than using a list

dict = { }

#initialize dictionary

dictf = open('dict.txt')
for word in dictf:
    word = word.strip()
    dict[word]='1'

def isindict (word):
    return dict.get(word,0) or dict.get(word.lower(),0)