weird strings question

[Robert Kern]

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.

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