Step 15: String Methods Scrabble project

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Help please on Step 15 (bonus question) of Scrabble project at the end of the Python 3: String Methods lesson…

https://www.codecademy.com/courses/learn-python-3/projects/scrabble

  1. For the second bonus question that asks us to define an update_point_totals() function, why do we not need to put parameters inside the ()?

  2. For the third/last bonus question, how does the code <points *= 2> know to work on each individual letter in the letters list, instead of just working on the first letter only?

Thank you.

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What code have you written? Please post the formatted code.

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Oh yes. I was studying the solution code that was provided. Here you go.

Code for the first question that I had:

def update_point_totals():

for player, words in player_to_words.items():

player_points = 0
for word in words:

player_points += score_word(word)
player_to_points[player] = player_points

update_point_totals()
print(player_to_points)

Code for the second question the I had:

letters += [
letter.lower()
for letter
in letters
]
points *= 2