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Wordle Helper

 I recently started playing Wordle, and while I love the game, I kind of got annoyed when I had guessed a couple of words and had only a few left, but had to go through the letters in my head one by one trying to figure out what was possible.  Brute-forcing letters like that is the job of a computer.... So I made a program to help me figure out possible letters more quickly.   Basically, I took all the 5-letter English words, and knock them down based on what is known to be missing, what is known to be there, what is where, and what is not where.   I hope that someone else enjoys this program.   #!/usr/bin/python3 '''  This script reads in a dictioary of 5-letter english (supposedly) words (I AWK'd the five-letter words from a dictionary that may include non-real words),  and prints out words that remain after the User Defined Variables are entered Enter User Defined Variables with single quotes, separated by commas (i.e. 'o' or ['t','y']) - Firs