Your example have taught me something new about the generator expressions.

You are not right, beacuse the words have different lengths...

The one letter word 'i' should score 9.

The two letter word 'be' should score 7.

If you don't take away the 96, you would get 105 for 'i' and 197 for 'be'.

Newbie stoopid question here: It's really necessary the "-96" part? I mean, they're asking for the word, not for the score. The high score word will be ever the same proportionaly as all characters has +96. I am right? Thanks.

it looks nice, one liner.

I personnaly prefer manually iterating each letter to reduce complexity

Because it wants you to return the first greatest word.

Eh, agree to disagree. Wouldn't call it "hacky", it's just not very neat. I'd personally find it easier to read a multiline solution

I've seen hacky code before - this isn't hacky in the least. If anything, it's the most idiomatic way to do this, imo.

Who voted best practises lmao? If I saw this in a codebase I'd cry

Still, outside of production, I love clever one liners - +1.

if 'aa b', why 'aa' in this answer, will select the first not select the second?

It is a time to learn lambda functions :)

why? 💀

Thanks.

It's a generator expression. See https://peps.python.org/pep-0289/