scrabble.py

import argparse
import operator

""" 
	
	Part 1: Constructing a word list
		
		1. Open sowpods.txt in read only format and read each line using .readlines()
		2. Use strip method to remove any whitespaces

		
"""

with open('sowpods.txt', 'r') as f:
	sowpods = f.readlines()
words = [x.strip() for x in sowpods]

"""
	
	Step 2: Getting the rack
	
		1. Make a new parser and add an argument 'RACK' to it
		2. Assign the value args.RACK to the variable RACK. Its value remains constant.(constant variables are written in upper case)
	
	
"""

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="get the rack")
parser.add_argument('RACK', help="Input rack")
args = parser.parse_args()
RACK = (args.RACK).upper()

"""
	
	Step 3: Find Valid Words
		
		1. Create a new empty list valid_words 
		2. Create a new method IsSubset to check whether each letter of the word is in RACK
		3. Append those words to valid_words list

"""

valid_words = []

def IsSubset(s1,s2):
    alist = list(s2)

    pos1 = 0
    stillOK = True

    while pos1 < len(s1) and stillOK:
        pos2 = 0
        found = False
        while pos2 < len(alist) and not found:
            if s1[pos1] == alist[pos2]:
                found = True
            else:
                pos2 = pos2 + 1

        if found:
            alist[pos2] = None
        else:
            stillOK = False

        pos1 = pos1 + 1

    return stillOK
	
for word in words:
	if IsSubset(word,RACK):
		valid_words.append(word)
		
"""
	
	Step 4: Scoring
		
		Write the code to determine the Scrabble scores for each valid word

"""
scores = {"a": 1, "c": 3, "b": 3, "e": 1, "d": 2, "g": 2,
         "f": 4, "i": 1, "h": 4, "k": 5, "j": 8, "m": 3,
         "l": 1, "o": 1, "n": 1, "q": 10, "p": 3, "s": 1,
         "r": 1, "u": 1, "t": 1, "w": 4, "v": 4, "y": 4,
         "x": 8, "z": 10}

score = 0
result = {}
for word in valid_words:
	for letter in list(word):
		score = score + scores[letter.lower()]
	result[word] = score	
	score = 0
sorted_x = sorted(result.items(), key = operator.itemgetter(1), reverse = True)
result = dict(sorted_x)
for word in result.keys():
	print("{} {}".format(result[word], word))