I'm trying to convert a name into a numerical value that is not
consistent with ANSCII values. In my case, I convert all to lowercase,
then try to sum the value of the letters entered by the user, can't
get it to add them. Here is what I have. By the way, the values I need
to use is: a=1, b=2,
print sum([ord(ch)-96 for ch in small])
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to convert a name into a numerical value that is not
consistent with ANSCII values. In my case, I convert all to lowercase,
then try to sum the value of the letters entered by the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
for ch in small:
v = ord(ch)-96
print v
total = 0
for ch in small:
# the += below updates the value of total by adding (ord(ch) - 96)
total += (ord(ch) - 96)
print ch:, ch, total so far:, total
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I convert all to lowercase,
import string
small = string.lower(name)
print Here is the calculated value:
print small
for ch in small:
v = ord(ch)-96
print v
I don't know if you are using an out of date
