Scrabble

suchithe · May 30, 2020, 8:29pm

Help improve the coding

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scrabble.py

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 = {letter : point for letter, point in zip(letters, points)}
letter_to_points[' '] = 0

def score_word(word):
  point_total = 0
  for letter in word.upper():
    if letter not in letter_to_points:

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toastedpitabread · May 31, 2020, 12:50am

Hi!

Help improve it how? Ideas for efficiency/technique or ideas for expanding features?

suchithe · May 31, 2020, 6:06am

yes. efficiency and techniques.