Answer to Question #205035 in Python for p.kusal

Question

Secret Message - 2

Given a string, write a program to print a secret message that replaces characters with numbers 'a' with 1, 'b' with 2, ..., 'z' with 26 where characters are separated by '-'.

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Input

Input will be a string in single line containing spaces and letters both uppercase and lowercase.

Output

Output should be a single line containing secret message. All characters in output should be in lower case.

Explanation

For example, if input is "python", "p" should replaced with "16", similarly"y" with "25","t" with "20","h" with "8","o" with "15","n" with "14". So output be "16-25-20-8-15-14".

Sample Input 1

python

Sample Output 1

16-25-20-8-15-14

Sample Input 2

python learning

Sample Output 2

16-25-20-8-15-14 12-5-1-18-14-9-14-7

Answer 1

cipher = {}
for code, letter in enumerate('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', 1):
    cipher[ord(letter)] = str(code) + '-'
S = input('Input string: ').lower().split()
for word in S:
    print(word.translate(cipher)[:-1], end=' ')