words_file = "sowpods.txt"

f = open(words_file, "r")
wordlist = f.readlines()
f.close()

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

scores = {"a" : 1, "c" : 3, "b" : 3, "e" : 1, "d" : 2, "g" : 2,
          "f" : 4, "i" : 3, "h" : 4, "k" : 5, "j" : 8, "m" : 3,
          "l" : 1, "o" : 3, "n" : 3, "q" : 10, "p" : 3, "s" : 1,
          "r" : 1, "u" : 1, "t" : 1, "w" : 4, "v" : 4, "y" : 4,
          "x" : 8, "z" : 10}