weird strings question

[Lucas Raab]

Robert Kern wrote:
> Lucas Raab wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to assign a string a numerical value?? For example, in 
>> the string "test" can I assign a number to each letter as in "t" = 45, 
>> "e" =  89, "s" = 54, and so on and so forth??
> 
> 
> Use a dictionary with the strings as keys.
> 
> string2num = {}
> string2num['t'] = 45
> string2num['e'] = 89
> 
> etc.
> 

Thanks. That's what I was looking for, but was just unsure exactly how 
to proceed.