Write a Python script that takes a Scrabble rack as a command-line argument and prints all valid Scrabble words that can be constructed from that rack, along with their Scrabble scores, sorted by score.
Step 1: construct a word list
Write the code to open and read the sowpods word file. Create a list, where each element is a word in the sowpods word file. Note that each line in the file ends in a newline, which you'll need to remove from the word.
Step 2: get the rack
Write the code to get the Scrabble rack (the letters available to make words) from the command line argument passed to your script. For example if your script were called scrabble.py
, if you ran python scrabble.py RSTLNEI, RSTLNEI
would be the rack.
Handle the case where a a user forgets to supply a rack; in this case, print an error message saying they need to supply some letters. Make sure you are consistent about capitalization.
Step 3: find valid words
Write the code to find all words from the word list that are made of letters that are a subset of the rack letters. There are many ways to do this, but here's one way that is easy to reason about and is fast enough for our purposes: go through every word in the word list, and for every letter in that word, see if that letter is contained in the rack. If it is, save the word in a valid_words list. Make sure you handle repeat letters: once a letter from the rack has been used, it can't be used again.
Step 4: scoring
Write the code to determine the Scrabble scores for each valid word, using the scores dictionary from above.