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Re: converting letters to numbers

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Date 2013-10-08 11:01 -0400
Subject Re: converting letters to numbers
From Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.857.1381244474.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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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'


-- 
Joel Goldstick
http://joelgoldstick.com

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converting letters to numbers kjakupak@gmail.com - 2013-10-08 07:28 -0700
  Re: converting letters to numbers Robert Day <robertkday@gmail.com> - 2013-10-08 15:47 +0100
    Re: converting letters to numbers kjakupak@gmail.com - 2013-10-08 07:51 -0700
      Re: converting letters to numbers Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-10-08 11:01 -0400
  Re: converting letters to numbers random832@fastmail.us - 2013-10-08 11:36 -0400
    Re: converting letters to numbers kjakupak@gmail.com - 2013-10-08 08:44 -0700
      Re: converting letters to numbers random832@fastmail.us - 2013-10-08 11:58 -0400
      Re: converting letters to numbers Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-10-13 20:13 -0700
        Re: converting letters to numbers Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-14 05:02 +0000
          Re: converting letters to numbers Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> - 2013-10-16 12:18 -0700
            Re: converting letters to numbers Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-10-16 16:25 -0400
          Re: converting letters to numbers Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-10-16 23:39 +0100
            Re: converting letters to numbers MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-10-16 23:53 +0100
            Re: converting letters to numbers Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 01:21 +0100
          Re: converting letters to numbers Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-10-19 16:31 -0700
          Re: converting letters to numbers rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 01:33 -0700
  Re: converting letters to numbers Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-08 17:05 +0100
  Re: converting letters to numbers Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-10-08 21:24 +0000

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