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#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
letters-to-100.py
"""
import string
winning_list = []
count = 1
while count <=300:
letter_values = dict((l, i) for i, l in enumerate(string.lowercase, start=1))
english_dict = open('/usr/share/dict/words', 'rU')
winning_words = []
for word in english_dict:
word = word.rstrip().replace('-', '')
value = sum([letter_values[l.lower()] for l in word])
if value is count:
winning_words.append(word)
totalup = len(winning_words)
winning_list.append(totalup)
count += 1
print winning_list
[2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 8, 11, 13, 20, 11, 20, 23, 21, 29, 38, 44, 45, 60, 69, 72, 78, 104, 106, 116, 137, 153, 168, 185, 243, 246, 262, 278, 295, 302, 340, 368, 420, 436, 495, 486, 554, 536, 603, 598, 647, 689, 753, 757, 801, 840, 909, 968, 1021, 1005, 1087, 1047, 1099, 1128, 1142, 1232, 1282, 1343, 1332, 1367, 1420, 1460, 1444, 1519, 1618, 1630, 1640, 1670, 1814, 1748, 1773, 1878, 1771, 1919, 1924, 1970, 1973, 2010, 1959, 2052, 2091, 2130, 2126, 2113, 2065, 2175, 2211, 2217, 2170, 2174, 2239, 2316, 2275, 2194, 2296, 2271, 2356, 2211, 2258, 2177, 2220, 2331, 2265, 2227, 2264, 2228, 2170, 2216, 2204, 2274, 2247, 2180, 2219, 2044, 2175, 2076, 2136, 2116, 2057, 1999, 2001, 2065, 1939, 1956, 1968, 1893, 1870, 1773, 1841, 1818, 1738, 1677, 1725, 1666, 1683, 1577, 1534, 1477, 1470, 1534, 1440, 1374, 1401, 1362, 1384, 1316, 1270, 1176, 1227, 1199, 1126, 1135, 1142, 1101, 1070, 991, 1014, 986, 976, 900, 937, 832, 828, 808, 766, 776, 739, 727, 675, 680, 628, 636, 655, 617, 598, 557, 526, 535, 506, 491, 455, 485, 437, 434, 417, 411, 360, 380, 370, 330, 310, 318, 301, 296, 322, 253, 234, 256, 255, 202, 211, 208, 166, 176, 175, 172, 178, 157, 134, 141, 160, 140, 132, 119, 115, 107, 107, 89, 101, 93, 79, 82, 65, 63, 67, 58, 70, 61, 53, 65, 32, 53, 42, 54, 39, 51, 28, 29, 25, 33, 29, 26, 35, 27, 22, 24, 15, 13, 15, 12, 14, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
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