Question

ps6 p4 - so i'm trying to figure out the most efficient way of sorting a string by the values of the characters in the string according to the scrabble value dictionary. At the moment I'm thinking I should create a dictionary of the word, then use import operator and itemgetter to create a sorted list of tuples as a representation, and then slice that list of tuples up to extract the sorted word. But this seems to me an enormously laborious process... and besides I haven't seen itemgetter in the lectures yet... so there must be a more efficient way to do this surely?

Answer 1

just because you haven't seen it in a lecture doesn't mean you cannot use it
this is not a Python class

I am not sure i understand - you want to rearrange the letters in a string so that they are ordered according to their scrabble point values?

have you read this? http://docs.python.org/howto/sorting.html
http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#sorted
use the sorted function with a custom comparison function

Answer 2

spoiler - http://codepad.org/JVabgH3m