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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:01:12 -0400
Subject: Re: converting letters to numbers
From: Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:56413

You wrote this:

def add(c1, c2):
    ord(c1) - ord('a') + 1
    ord(c2) - ord('a') + 1

First of all, this looks like homework.  People will help you with
concepts here, but most frown on just providing answers.  With that in
mind look at this:

>>> ord('A')
65
>>> ord('a')
97
>>>

In your assignment you refer to Upper case letters.  In your code you
take the ordinal value of lower case 'a'


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