[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to create a program that I type in a word. > > for example... > > chaos > > each letter equals a number.... > > A=1 > B=20 > > and so on. > > So Chaos would be > > C=13 H=4 A=1 O=7 S=5 > > I want to then have those numbers > 13+4+1+7+5 added together to be 30. > > How can I do that? > > Also, just curious, but, how could I then have the 3 and 0 added > together to be 3? > > Please help me out. > > Thank you..... >
>>> sum(dict(C=13,H=4,A=1,O=7,S=5)[_] for _ in 'CHAOS') 30 >>> sum(eval(ch) for ch in str(_)) 3 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list