ord function problem from newbie

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David.J.Anderso... at gmail.com wrote:
>  I convert all to lowercase,
>
> import string
>
> 	small = string.lower(name)
> 	print "Here is the calculated value:"
>
>         print small
> 	for ch in small:
> 		v = ord(ch)-96
>                 print v
>

I don't know if you are using an out of date book or what, but
generally you are not going to be importing string.  For example,

my_str = "HELLO"
small = my_str.lower()
print small

--output:--
hello