title: Creating a python scrabble function that takes a string as input and returns a score for that word
body: <p>Hi i am working on Codecademy exercise 9/15. The goal is to create a scrabble function that takes a string as input then returns a score for that word. </p>
  
  <p>They give you a dictionary to start off with and this is what I have so far after searching for "how to loop through a dictionary and add values" on google.</p>
  
  <pre><code>score = {"a": 1, "c": 3, "b": 3, "e": 1, "d": 2, "g": 2, 
           "f": 4, "i": 1, "h": 4, "k": 5, "j": 8, "m": 3, 
           "l": 1, "o": 1, "n": 1, "q": 10, "p": 3, "s": 1, 
           "r": 1, "u": 1, "t": 1, "w": 4, "v": 4, "y": 4, 
           "x": 8, "z": 10}
  
  
  
  
  1) total = 0 # takes your input word value and saves it to total 
  
  
  2) def scrabble_score(x):       # defining function name 
  3)     for i in score.values(): # loops through score           
  4)         total += i           # sums up your input key value
  5)     return i 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this code keeps throwing a local variable total error.</p>
  
  <p>does this mean that the total variable does not work with the scrabble_score(x) function? </p>