Using names.txt
(right click and 'Save Link/Target As...'), a 46K text file containing over five-thousand
first names, begin by sorting it into alphabetical order. Then working out the alphabetical value for
each name, multiply this value by its alphabetical position in the list to obtain a name score.
For example, when the list is sorted into alphabetical order, COLIN
, which is worth \$3 + 15 + 12 + 9 + 14 = 53\$,
is the 938th name in the list. So, COLIN
would obtain a score of \$938 × 53 = 49714\$.
What is the total of all the name scores in the file?
import string
def calculate_score(filename):
"""Reads names and returns total scores."""
letter_scores = {letter: ord(letter) - 64 for letter in string.ascii_uppercase}
with open(filename) as names:
total = 0
names = sorted(names.read().replace('"', '').split(','))
for index, name in enumerate(names):
temp = 0
for letter in name:
temp += letter_scores[letter]
total += temp * (index + 1)
return total
if __name__ == '__main__':
print(calculate_score('p022_names.txt'))