Maple - Christine & Juliana

[Jruiz9312]

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[tgoslee]

I would suggest making this a global constant variable to remove "clutter" from your function

[tgoslee]

I would look into the copy() and deepcopy() methods that could be used here to save you some lines of code: https://docs.python.org/3/library/copy.html

[tgoslee]

same suggestion about using copy() method. Even though this works great!

[tgoslee]

loved how you set up the key-value pairs. I would suggest making this a global constant variable.

[tgoslee]

I saw that you took an approach using tuples. Here is a way to use tuples and shorten some of the lines of code:

Suggested change

	highest_score_word_list = []
	comparing_word_scores = {}
	current_word_score = 0
	for word in word_list:
	current_word_score = score_word(word)
	if comparing_word_scores.get(current_word_score):
	comparing_word_scores[current_word_score].append(word)
	else:
	comparing_word_scores[current_word_score] = []
	comparing_word_scores[current_word_score].append(word)
	current_highest_score=0
	for score, words in comparing_word_scores.items():
	if score > current_highest_score:
	highest_score_word_list.clear()
	for word in words:
	highest_score_word_list.append(word)
	current_highest_score = score
	shortest_word_length = 10
	shortest_word_list = []
	if len(highest_score_word_list) == 1:
	final_tuple = (highest_score_word_list[0], current_highest_score)
	return final_tuple
	elif len(highest_score_word_list) > 1:
	for word in highest_score_word_list:
	if len(word) == 10:
	return (word, current_highest_score)
	else:
	if len(word) < shortest_word_length:
	shortest_word_list.append(word)
	shortest_word_length=len(word)
	return (shortest_word_list[-1], current_highest_score)
	highest = (word_list[0],0)
	for word in word_list:
	score = score_word(word)
	if score > highest[1]:
	highest = (word, score)
	elif score == highest[1]:
	if len(highest[0]) == 10:
	pass
	elif len(word) == 10 and len(highest[0]) != 10:
	highest = (word, score)
	elif len(word) < len(highest[0]):
	highest = (word, score)
	return highest

[tgoslee]

Great work! I loved how you all set up your data structures. I added a few suggestions about using helpful methods, refactoring, and using global variables.