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Write the code to get the Scrabble rack (the letters available to make words) from the command line argument passed to your script. For example if your script were called `scrabble_cheater.py`, if you ran <tt>python scrabble_cheater.py RSTLNEI</tt>, <tt>RSTLNEI</tt> would be the rack.

Handle the case where a

~~Handle the case where~~ a user forgets to supply a rack; in this case, print an error message saying they need to supply some letters, and then exit the program using the <code>exit()</code> function. Make sure you are consistent about capitalization: if your scores dictionary is lowercase, the letters supplied by the user need to be converted to lowercase at some point before you compare them.

a user forgets to supply a rack; in this case, print an error message saying they need to supply some letters, and then exit the program using the <code>exit()</code> function. Make sure you are consistent about capitalization: if your scores dictionary is lowercase, the letters supplied by the user need to be converted to lowercase at some point before you compare them.

<b>Step 2 resources</b>:

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<li>Converting letters to lower case: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.lower</li>

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====Step 3: find valid words====