Answer to Question #266212 in Python for anji

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 '-'.

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

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

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".

Sample Input 1

python

Sample Output 1

16-25-20-8-15-14

Sample Input 2

Foundations

Sample Output 2

6-15-21-14-4-1-20-9-15-14-19

Answer 1

Source code

alphabet="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
numbers=[i for i in range(1,len(alphabet)+1)]


def char_to_int(char):
    for i in range(len(alphabet)):
        if char.lower()==alphabet[i]:
            return numbers[i]
        if char.lower() not in alphabet:
            return char
s=input()
s_num=[]
for i in s:
    s_num.append(char_to_int(i))
    
for i in range(len(s_num)):
    if i==(len(s_num)-1):
        print(s_num[i],end="")
    else:
        print(s_num[i],end="-")

Output