From 5c01b3a21adb0e755dc10780eb2a3550953a2ff0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AndrewB50 <97339555+AndrewB50@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2023 03:33:01 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Update Python Program to Sort Words in Alphabetic Order.py

Changes:
>Removes punctuation
>Sorts all words alphabetically by using consistent case (.lower())
>Ignores duplicate words
>Output is a dictionary which assigns each alphabetized word (value) a respective number (key)
---
 ...ogram to Sort Words in Alphabetic Order.py | 38 +++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Python Program to Sort Words in Alphabetic Order.py b/Python Program to Sort Words in Alphabetic Order.py
index f4ebe04a29c..3e4bd3564e5 100644
--- a/Python Program to Sort Words in Alphabetic Order.py	
+++ b/Python Program to Sort Words in Alphabetic Order.py	
@@ -1,18 +1,42 @@
-# Program to sort alphabetically the words form a string provided by the user
+# Program to sort words alphabetically and put them in a dictionary with corresponding numbered keys
+# We are also removing punctuation to ensure the desired output, without importing a library for assistance. 
 
-my_str = "Hello this Is an Example With cased letters"
+# Declare base variables
+word_Dict = {}
+count = 0
+my_str = "Hello this Is an Example With cased letters. Hello, this is a good string"
+#Initialize punctuation
+punctuations = '''!()-[]{};:'",<>./?@#$%^&*_~'''
 
 # To take input from the user
 #my_str = input("Enter a string: ")
 
+# remove punctuation from the string and use an empty variable to put the alphabetic characters into
+no_punct = ""
+for char in my_str:
+   if char not in punctuations:
+       no_punct = no_punct + char
+
+# Make all words in string lowercase. my_str now equals the original string without the punctuation 
+my_str = no_punct.lower()
+
 # breakdown the string into a list of words
 words = my_str.split()
 
-# sort the list
+# sort the list and remove duplicate words
 words.sort()
 
-# display the sorted words
-
-print("The sorted words are:")
+new_Word_List = []
 for word in words:
-   print(word)
+    if word not in new_Word_List:
+        new_Word_List.append(word)
+    else:
+        continue
+
+# insert sorted words into dictionary with key
+
+for word in new_Word_List:
+    count+=1
+    word_Dict[count] = word
+
+print(word_Dict)