Answer to Question #233918 in Python for rasi

Question

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 '-'.

Note: You need to replace both uppercase and lowercase characters. You can ignore replacing all characters that are not letters.

input: python learning

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

Explanation

For example, if the given 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 the output should be "16-25-20-8-15-14".

Answer 1

letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
print(' '.join(['-'.join([str(letters.index(ch) + 1) if ch in letters else ch for ch in word.lower()]) for word in
                input().split()]))