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Subject: Re: converting letters to numbers
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 11:58:36 -0400
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On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 11:44, kjakupak@gmail.com wrote:
> def add(c1, c2):
>     ans = ''

This only makes sense if your answer is going to be multiple characters.

>     for i in c1 + c2:

This line concatenates the strings together.

>         ans += chr((((ord(i)-65))%26) + 65)

The way you are doing the modulus, this results in - well, let me
illustrate:

>>> add('','WXYZ[\]^_`abcde')
'WXYZABCDEFGHIJK'