WORD_LIST = "sowpods.txt"
-wordlist = file(WORD_LIST, 'r').readlines()
-# Get rid of newlines
-wordlist = [word.lower().strip() for word in wordlist]
+
+with open(WORD_LIST) as wordlist_file:
+ wordlist = []
+ for word in wordlist_file.readlines():
+ word = word.strip()
+ wordlist.append(word)
scores = {"a": 1, "c": 3, "b": 3, "e": 1, "d": 2, "g": 2,
- "f": 4, "i": 1, "h": 4, "k": 5, "j": 8, "m": 3,
- "l": 1, "o": 1, "n": 1, "q": 10, "p": 3, "s": 1,
- "r": 1, "u": 1, "t": 1, "w": 4, "v": 4, "y": 4,
- "x": 8, "z": 10}
+ "f": 4, "i": 1, "h": 4, "k": 5, "j": 8, "m": 3,
+ "l": 1, "o": 1, "n": 1, "q": 10, "p": 3, "s": 1,
+ "r": 1, "u": 1, "t": 1, "w": 4, "v": 4, "y": 4,
+ "x": 8, "z": 10}