From 8041d0dc15bafb483561aa34b281cedbdb44539b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco de Zeeuw <marco.zeeuw@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 10:52:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] PCC01 demarcoz (#335)

---
 01/demarcoz/wordvalue.py | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 01/demarcoz/wordvalue.py

diff --git a/01/demarcoz/wordvalue.py b/01/demarcoz/wordvalue.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4964b1ff6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/01/demarcoz/wordvalue.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+from data import DICTIONARY, LETTER_SCORES
+
+def load_words():
+    """Load dictionary into a list and return list"""
+    with open(DICTIONARY, 'r') as f:
+        wordlist = f.read().splitlines()
+    return wordlist
+
+def calc_word_value(word):
+    """Calculate the value of the word entered into function
+    using imported constant mapping LETTER_SCORES"""
+    value = 0
+    for letter in word:
+        value += LETTER_SCORES.get(letter.upper(),0)
+    return value
+
+def max_word_value(wordlist=None):
+    """Calculate the word with the max value, can receive a list
+    of words as arg, if none provided uses default DICTIONARY"""
+    if wordlist is None:
+        wordlist = load_words()
+    word_values = {}
+    for word in wordlist:
+        word_values[word] = calc_word_value(word)
+    return max(word_values.iterkeys(), key=(lambda key: word_values[key]))
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    pass # run unittests to validate