highest_scoring_word.py

"""
Given a string of words, you need to find the highest scoring word.

Each letter of a word scores points according to its position in the alphabet: a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 etc.

You need to return the highest scoring word as a string.

If two words score the same, return the word that appears earliest in the original string.

All letters will be lowercase and all inputs will be valid.
"""


def high(x):
    max_word = ''
    max_score = 0
    for word in x.split(' '):
        score = sum([ord(char) - 96 for char in word])
        if score > max_score:
            max_word = word
            max_score = score
    return max_word