diff --git a/tweet_sentiment.py b/tweet_sentiment.py
index 9f6c6ba..c324b22 100644
--- a/tweet_sentiment.py
+++ b/tweet_sentiment.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
 import sys
 import json
 
@@ -5,60 +6,43 @@
 twitterData = sys.argv[2] #output.txt
 
 def tweet_dict(twitterData):  
-    ''' (file) -> list of dictionaries
-    This method should take your output.txt
-    file and create a list of dictionaries.
-    '''
+  
     twitter_list_dict = []
     twitterfile = open(twitterData)
     for line in twitterfile:
-        #twitter_list_dict.append(json.loads(line.decode('utf-8-sig')))
-        twitter_list_dict.append(json.loads(line))
+       twitter_list_dict.append(json.loads(line)) 
     return twitter_list_dict
-    #return data_read["text"]
+    
     
 def sentiment_dict(sentimentData):
-    ''' (file) -> dictionary
-    This method should take your sentiment file
-    and create a dictionary in the form {word: value}
-    '''
+   
     afinnfile = open(sentimentData)
-    scores = {} # initialize an empty dictionary
+    scores = {} 
     for line in afinnfile:
-        term, score  = line.split("\t")  # The file is tab-delimited. "\t" means "tab character"
-        scores[term] = float(score)  # Convert the score to an integer.
+        term, score  = line.split("\t")  
+        scores[term] = int(score)  
 
-    return scores # Print every (term, score) pair in the dictionary
+    return scores 
     
 def main():
     tweets = tweet_dict(twitterData)
     sentiment = sentiment_dict(sentimentData)
-    
-    '''Create a method below that loops through each tweet in your 
-    twees_list.  For each individual tweet it should add up you sentiment 
-    score, based on the sent_dict.
-    '''
     for index in range(len(tweets)):
-        tweet_word = tweets[index]["text"].split()
-        sent_score = 0
-        for word in tweet_word:
-            word = word.rstrip('?:!.,;"!@')
-            word = word.replace("\n", "")
+        if index and 'text' in tweets[index]:
+            tweet_word = tweets[index]['text'].split()
+            sent_score = 0
+            for word in tweet_word:
+                word = word.rstrip('?:!.,;"!@')
+                word = word.replace("\n", "")
             
-            if not (word.encode('utf-8', 'ignore') == ""):
-                if word.encode('utf-8') in sentiment.keys():
-                    sent_score = sent_score + float(sentiment[word])
+                if not (word.encode('utf-8', 'ignore') == ""):
+                    if word.encode('utf-8') in sentiment.keys():
+                        sent_score = sent_score + float(sentiment[word])
                     
-                else:
-                    sent_score = sent_score 
-
-        print float(sent_score)
-    
-
+                    else:
+                        sent_score = sent_score
 
-
-
-
-    
+            print float(sent_score)
+  
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()