Need some help...

[Ricardo Aráoz]

Boris Borcic wrote:
> hyozan.ux3 at gmail.com wrote:
>> I want to create a program that I type in a word.
>>
>> for example...
>>
>> chaos
>>
>> each letter equals a number....
>>
>> A=1
>> B=20
>>
>>  and so on.
>>
>> So Chaos would be
>>
>> C=13 H=4 A=1 O=7 S=5
>>
>> I want to then have those numbers
>> 13+4+1+7+5 added together to be 30.
>>
>> How can I do that?
>>
>> Also, just curious, but, how could I then have the 3 and 0 added
>> together to be 3?
>>
>> Please help me out.
>>
>> Thank you.....
>>
> 
>  >>> sum(dict(C=13,H=4,A=1,O=7,S=5)[_] for _ in 'CHAOS')
> 30
>  >>> sum(eval(ch) for ch in str(_))
> 3


>>> def sumToOneDigit(num) :
	if num < 10 :
		return num
	else :
		return sumToOneDigit(sum(int(i) for i in str(num)))

	
>>> sumToOneDigit(sum(ord(ch) for ch in 'chaos'.upper()))
6



HTH