Python - Maximum Scoring word

Python – Maximum Scoring word

Difficulty Level : Easy
Last Updated : 24 Jan, 2021

Given a String, the task is to write a Python program to compute maximum scoring words i.e words made of characters with a maximum positional summation.

Examples:

Input : test_str = ‘geeks must use geeksforgeeks for cs knowledge’

Output : geeksforgeeks

Explanation : Sum of characters positional values for “geeksforgeeks” word is maximum, hence result.

Input : test_str = ‘geeks love geeksforgeeks’

Output : geeksforgeeks

Explanation : Sum of characters positional values for “geeksforgeeks” word is maximum, hence result.

Method #1 : Using split() + loop + ord() + ascii_lowercase

In this, we initially split each word using split(), get positional magnitude using ord(), ascii_lowercase checks for correct pool of characters chosen for evaluation.

Python3

# Python3 code to demonstrate working of 
# Maximum Scoring word 
# Using split() + loop + ord() + ascii_lowercase 
import string 
  
# initializing string 
test_str = 'geeks must use geeksforgeeks for cs knowledge'
  
# printing original string 
print("The original string is : " + str(test_str)) 
  
score = 0
max_sc = 0
res = '' 
for wrd in test_str.split(): 
    score = 0
    # computing score 
    for lttr in wrd: 
        if lttr in string.ascii_lowercase: 
            score += ord(lttr) - 96
  
    # updating maximum 
    if score > max_sc: 
        max_sc = score 
        res = wrd 
  
# printing result 
print("Maximum scoring word : " + str(res)) 

Output:

The original string is : geeks must use geeksforgeeks for cs knowledge
Maximum scoring word : geeksforgeeks

Method #2 : Using sum() + loop + ord()

Similar to above method, only difference here being sum() is used for task of summation rather than internal loop.

Python3

# Python3 code to demonstrate working of 
# Maximum Scoring word 
# Using sum() + loop + ord() 
import string 
  
# initializing string 
test_str = 'geeks must use geeksforgeeks for cs knowledge'
  
# printing original string 
print("The original string is : " + str(test_str)) 
  
score = 0
max_sc = 0
res = '' 
for wrd in test_str.split(): 
  
    # computing score 
    # sum for cummulation 
    score = sum(ord(lttr) - 96 for lttr in wrd if lttr in string.ascii_lowercase) 
  
    # updating maximum 
    if score > max_sc: 
        max_sc = score 
        res = wrd 
  
# printing result 
print("Maximum scoring word : " + str(res)) 

Output:

The original string is : geeks must use geeksforgeeks for cs knowledge
Maximum scoring word : geeksforgeeks

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