initial, clumsy solutuon

[pritchardians]

"""
Initial, rather clumsy solution to try the PR system out.

ToDo: Use comprehensions to refactor and improve

"""
from data import DICTIONARY, LETTER_SCORES

def load_words():
"""Load dictionary into a list and return list"""
with open(DICTIONARY) as my_dict:
return my_dict.read().splitlines()

def calc_word_value(word):
"""Calculate the value of the word entered into function
using imported constant mapping LETTER_SCORES"""
score = 0
for letter in word:
current_score = LETTER_SCORES.get(letter.upper())
if current_score:
score += current_score
return score

def max_word_value():
"""Calculate the word with the max value, can receive a list
of words as arg, if none provided uses default DICTIONARY"""
max_word = ""
max_score = 0
all_words = load_words()
for word in all_words:
score = calc_word_value(word)
if score > max_score:
max_word = word
max_score = score
return max_word

if name == "main":
pass # run unittests to validate