scrabbleDictionary.py

letters = ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "U", "V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z"]
points = [1, 3, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2, 4, 1, 8, 5, 1, 3, 4, 1, 3, 10, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 8, 4, 10]

#Join the two lists into a combined list using list comprehension
letter_to_points = {key:value for key, value in zip(letters, points)}

letter_to_points[" "] = 0

#calculate the number of points for each word
def score_word(word):
  point_total = 0

  for letter in word:
    point_total += letter_to_points.get(letter, 0) #get value for hash, if none, return 0
  return point_total

brownie_points = score_word("BROWNIE")
print(brownie_points)

players_to_words = {"player1" : ["BLUE", "TENNIS", "EXIT"], "wordNerd" : ["EARTH", "EYES", "MACHINE"], "Lexi Con" : ["ERASER", "BELLY", "HUSKY"], "Prof Reader" : ["ZAP", "COMA", "PERIOD"]}

player_to_points = {}


#tally points for each player based on the words they play
for player, words in players_to_words.items():
  player_points = 0
  for word in words:
   player_points += score_word(word)
  
  player_to_points[player] = player_points

print(player_to_points)