Sea Turtles - Adagrams - San and Olive #50
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| from random import shuffle | ||
| from collections import Counter | ||
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| LETTER_POOL = { |
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good job defining these variables as "constants" outside the function. Moving large chunks of data out from a function helps declutter the function and makes it more readable.
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| letters = [] | ||
| # Create a new list of all the elements of letter pool by their count | ||
| letter_bag = list(Counter(LETTER_POOL).elements()) |
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Calling list() on a dictionary takes all the keys and puts them in a list so we get a list of 26 letters here.
In order to select a random letter from a pool that reflects what you have declared in LETTER_POOL, you could create a list pool_of_letters and use the keys and values from LETTER_POOL to populate a list with 9 As, 2 Bs, 2 C,s, etc.
A suggestion could be:
pool_of_letters = []
for letter, number in available_letters.items():
pool_of_letters += letter * number
# You could then do user `random.choice(pool_of_letters)` | # Create a new list of all the elements of letter pool by their count | ||
| letter_bag = list(Counter(LETTER_POOL).elements()) | ||
| # Randomly reorganize the letters in letter_bag | ||
| shuffle(letter_bag) |
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shuffle is a great method to use here. If you didn't use shuffle here how would you get random words? Make sure if you were in a situation like interviewing you know how to explain how this method works or be able to implement an approach that doesn't use a method.
| while len(letters) < 10: | ||
| letters.append(letter_bag.pop()) | ||
| return letters | ||
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| def uses_available_letters(word, letter_bank): |
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Great job making a copy here. For example, you are removing letters from the original letter_bank, but the function returns False, meaning the word can't be made. Well, if you remove all the letters from the list, now the player's hand is empty! and they can't play the round anymore.
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| letter_bank_copy.remove(letter) | ||
| return True | ||
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| def score_word(word): |
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Great approach. This is about as efficient as we can get for this function!
| # Create a dictionary of the words from word_list and their scores | ||
| for word in word_list: | ||
| word_scores[word] = score_word(word) |
| if len(word) >= 7: | ||
| total += 8 | ||
| return total | ||
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| def get_highest_word_score(word_list): |
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Another approach would be creating a list or dictionary that contained only the highest scoring words in a single loop and then tie-breaking if that data structure contains more than one item. I would consider creating a helper function to manage tie breaking to have smaller, more focused functions.
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