Question

I'm I loosing it? I'm on Prob Set 4.1 and I believe the solution is quite straighforward, but I am confused on something on the result I'm getting.

Answer 1

my code is :

def get_word_score(word, n):

score = 0

if len(word) == n:

score += 50


for letter in word:
print letter
score += SCRABBLE_LETTER_VALUES[letter]

print score

Answer 2

with get_word_score('waybill', 7) as my input, I get an output of:

w
54
a
55
y
59
b
62
i
63
l
64
l
65

Shouldn't I just get the last score of 65 since the print statement is outside of the for loop? If I indent the print score statement to be on the same indentation as the print letter I get an unexpected indent error. I am confused!

Answer 3

I realized I posted the wrong code above. It should be:

def get_word_score(word, n):

score = 0

if len(word) == n:

score += 50


for letter in word:
print letter
score += SCRABBLE_LETTER_VALUES[letter]

print score

Answer 4

Yes, but get_word_score needs to return the score, not print it.

Answer 5

Thanks for the reply! I know it's to return rather than print score, I just wanted to make sure it was the correct value. To solve my issue I had to manually retype the function for it to work. Very odd. Some voodoo going on :)

Answer 6

You might have had a tab issue. I've had a piece of code that looks correct, but I had to entirely retab it because somewhere a space was messing up the entire code.