Challenge 1 Submission (pybites#59)

* completed challenge 01

* PCC1 tetrismegistus

* Delete wordvalue.py

Author: tetrismegistus

01/tetrismegistus/wordvalue.py

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+from data import DICTIONARY, LETTER_SCORES
+
+def load_words():
+    """Load dictionary into a list and return list"""
+    with open(DICTIONARY, 'r') as dict_file:
+        dictionary = dict_file.read().splitlines()
+    return dictionary
+
+def calc_word_value(word):
+    """Calculate the value of the word entered into function
+    using imported constant mapping LETTER_SCORES"""
+    score = 0
+    for char in word.upper():
+        if char.isalpha():
+            score += LETTER_SCORES[char]
+    return score 
+
+def max_word_value(word_list=load_words()):
+    """Calculate the word with the max value, can receive a list
+    of words as arg, if none provided uses default DICTIONARY"""
+    max_score = ('', 0)
+    for word in word_list:
+        score = calc_word_value(word)
+        if score > max_score[1]:
+            max_score = (word, score)
+    return max_score[0]
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    pass # run unittests to validate