Words With Friends helper

words.py

import copy
import re

file_loc = '/usr/share/dict/words'
words = {}
with open(file_loc) as f:
    word = f.readline()
    while word != '':
        words[word[:-1]] = True
        word = f.readline()

def test_for_blanks(a_list):
    for i in a_list:
        if i != '.':
            return False
    return True

d = { 'a':1, 'b':3, 'c':4, 'd':2, 'e':1, 'f':4, 'g':4, 'h':4, 'i':1,
     'j':10, 'k':5, 'l':1, 'm':4, 'n':2, 'o':1, 'p':4, 'q':10, 'r':1,
     's':1, 't':1, 'u':1, 'v':5, 'w':4, 'x':8, 'y':4, 'z':10}

def scrabble_score(a_word):
    '''return the scrabble score of a word'''
    return sum([d[i] for i in str.lower(a_word)])

def main():
    the_word = ''
    while True:
        print "What's the word?"
        the_input = raw_input()
        nums = ['4','5','6','7','8']
        nums.reverse()
        if re.search('^[0-9]+$', the_input):
            nums = the_input.split()
        elif the_input == "no":
            break
        else:
            the_word = the_input
        #pretty hacky
        word_chars = list(the_word)
        word_chars.sort(reverse=True)
        blanks = 0
        for i in word_chars:
            if i == '.':
                blanks += 1

        for num in nums:
            valid = []
            count = 0
            for word in words.iterkeys():
                count += 1
                if len(word) == int(num):
                    chars = list(word)
                    new_word = copy.copy(word_chars)
                    errors = 0
                    for (i, letter) in enumerate(chars):
                        try:
                            new_word.remove(letter)
                        except ValueError:
                            errors += 1

                    if errors <= blanks:
                        valid.append(ScrabbleWordScore(word, scrabble_score(word)))

            for i in sorted(valid):
                print i

    print count

class ScrabbleWordScore:

    def __init__(self, word, score):
        self.word = word
        self.score = score

    def __cmp__(self, other):
        return cmp(other.score, self.score)

    def __str__ (self):
        return "".join([self.word, " ", str(self.score)])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()