python3 sum in stings each letter value - string

Question

i need sum in string letters value ex.
a = 1
b = 2
c = 3
d = 4
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
v1
string = "abcd"
# #result = sum(string) so
if string[0] and string[1] and string[2] and string[3] in alphabet:
if string[0] is alphabet[0] and string[1] is alphabet[1] and string[2] is alphabet[2] and string[3] is alphabet[3]:
print(a+b+c+d)
v2
string = ("ab","aa","dc",)
if string[0][0] and string[0][1] and string[1][0] and string[1][1] and string[2][0] and string[2][1] in alphabet:
if string[0] is alphabet[0] and string[1] is alphabet[1] and string[2] is alphabet[2] and string[3] is alphabet[3]:
print(a+b+c+d)
what is the solution? can you help me

Answer 1

Use the sum() function and a generator expression; a dictionary built from string.ascii_lowercase can serve as a means to getting an integer value per letter:
from string import ascii_lowercase
letter_value = {c: i for i, c in enumerate(ascii_lowercase, 1)}
wordsum = sum(letter_value.get(c, 0) for c in word if c)
The enumerate(ascii_lowercase, 1) produces (index, letter) pairs when iterated over, starting at 1. That gives you (1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), etc. That can be converted to c: i letter pairs in a dictionary, mapping letter to integer number.
Next, using the dict.get() method lets you pick a default value; for any character in the input string, you get to look up the numeric value and map it to an integer, but if the character is not a lowercase letter, 0 is returned instead. The sum(...) part with the loop then simply adds those values up.
If you need to support sequences with words, just use sum() again. Put the above sum() call in a function, and apply that function to each word in a sequence:
from string import ascii_lowercase
letter_value = {c: i for i, c in enumerate(ascii_lowercase, 1)}
def sum_word(word):
return sum(letter_value.get(c, 0) for c in word if c)
def sum_words(words):
return sum(sum_word(word) for word in words)

Answer 2

The old-fashioned way is to take advantage of the fact that lowercase letters are contiguous, so that ord(b) - ord(a) == 1:
data = "abcd"
print("Sum:", sum(ord(c)-ord("a")+1 for c in data))
Of course you could "optimize" it to reduce the number of computations, though it seems silly in this case:
ord_a = ord("a")
print("Sum:", sum(ord(c)-ord_a for c in data)+len(data))