PCC01 rmackley (pybites#308)

* PCC01 rmackley

* Delete dictionary.txt

* Rename wordvalue-template.py to wordvalue.py

01/rmackley/data.py

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+DICTIONARY = 'dictionary.txt'
+
+scrabble_scores = [(1, "E A O I N R T L S U"), (2, "D G"), (3, "B C M P"),
+                   (4, "F H V W Y"), (5, "K"), (8, "J X"), (10, "Q Z")]
+LETTER_SCORES = {letter: score for score, letters in scrabble_scores
+                              for letter in letters.split()}

01/rmackley/wordvalue.py

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+from data import DICTIONARY, LETTER_SCORES
+
+def load_words(dict):
+    """Load dictionary into a list and return list"""
+    dict_list = []
+    with open(dict) as f:
+        for line in f:
+            dict_list.append(line.rstrip())
+    return (dict_list)
+
+def calc_word_value(test_str):
+    """Calculate the value of the word entered into function
+    using imported constant mapping LETTER_SCORES"""
+    score = 0
+    for letter in test_str:
+        if letter not in [".",",","-","_",":",";"]:
+            score += LETTER_SCORES.get(letter.upper())
+    return score
+
+def max_word_value(words_list=DICTIONARY):
+    """Calculate the word with the max value, can receive a list
+    of words as arg, if none provided uses default DICTIONARY"""
+    max = 0
+    for item in load_words(words_list):
+        val = calc_word_value(item)
+        if val > max:
+            max_str = item
+            max = val
+    return max_str
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    pass # run unittests to validate