Scrabble cheater module

sowpods.txt is a text file that contains all words in the

official SOWPODS Scrabble word list, one word per line.

WORD_LIST = "sowpods.txt"
wordlist = open(WORD_LIST).readlines()

# Get rid of newlines
wordlist = [word.lower().strip() for word in wordlist]

# Here is a Python dictionary containing all letters and their Scrabble values:

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}

See also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOWPODS