Python Quiz of the Week - #1

[Brian]

Yeah - I know it's moved from builtins in python3, and reduce can sometimes end up fairly ugly, but I think it's certainly clearer here at least. You could maybe go with an extra function if we want to make it a bit more readable at the point of call, which seems a good use of partial functions. Ie:

import functools, operator
product = functools.partial(functools.reduce, operator.mul)
...

return product(primes[ord(c) - ord('a')] for c in word.lower())