Answer to Question #346165 in Python for Bylapati suresh kumar

Question

pager

imagine a pager with only one button for the letter "A" you press the button one time for "B"ou press it two times for "E" you press it five times ,for "G" its pressed seven times

explanation :

for example if the given strings abcde , then

the total number of times the button pressed 1+2+4+5

so the output is 12

input: abde

output: 12

intput:xyz

output:75

Answer 1

inp = list(input())
alphabet = list('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')
out = 0
for i in range(len(inp)):
    for j in range(26):
        if inp[i] == alphabet[j]:
            out += j + 1
print(out)