Python 3 Scrabble project: loop only loops through the first letter of my values

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Hello everyone,
I’ve tried several times to get the right answer. I keep getting

{'player1': 5, 'wordNerd': 5, 'Lexi Con': 8, 'Prof Reader': 16}

It seems that my nested loop is only going through the first letter in the lists of values. I’m not sure why. I checked my code against the video on youtube and I still can’t seem to find the issue.

here is my code

letters = ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "U", "V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z"]

points = [1, 3, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2, 4, 1, 8, 5, 1, 3, 4, 1, 3, 10, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 8, 4, 10]

letter_to_points = {

  key: value 

  for key, value 

  in zip(letters, points)}

letter_to_points[" "] = 0

#print(letter_to_points)

def score_word(word):

  point_total = 0

  for letter in word:

    point_total += letter_to_points.get(letter, 0)

    return point_total

  

brownie_points = score_word("BROWNIE")

#print(brownie_points)

player_to_words = {

  "player1":["BLUE","TENNIS","EXIT"], 

  "wordNerd": ["EARTH", "EYES", "MACHINE"],

  "Lexi Con": ["ERASER", "BELLY", "HUSKY"], 

  "Prof Reader": ["ZAP", "COMA", "PERIOD"]}

player_to_points = {}

for player, words in player_to_words.items():

  #print("hi")

  player_points = 0

  for word in words:

    #print(1)

    player_points += score_word(word)

  player_to_points[player] = player_points

print(player_to_points)
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return point_total is inside your loop. When a return keyword is reached, the value is hand back to the caller/function call, which signals that the function is done executing. So the remaining loop iterations are not executed

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Thank you so much! One little indentation!

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Indention, but could just as easy have been a comma or a bracket. Welcome to the life of software developer :stuck_out_tongue:

5

Oh indention? I’ve never heard of the word. And I just looked it up and apparently both can be used. Not sure why but, english.
Thanks man! haha It actually was fun as frustrating as it was. Like a puzzle

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