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pythonpython-2.7
user3512662
user3512662

Reputation: 11

How to search if a character in a list is in a dictionary

I cant seem to figure out how to scan through my dictionary to find the characters in cometList and then append the numbers to my numList

i.e: I input comet and cometList becomes (C, O, M, E, T) it would then scan alphabetList and get the corresponding numbers (3, 15, 13, 5, 20) and append them to numList

alphabetList = {'A': '1', 'B': '2', 'C': '3', 'D': '4', 'E': '5', 'F': '6', 'G': '7', 'H': '8', 'I': '9', 'J': '10',
                'K': '11', 'L': '12', 'M': '13', 'N': '14', 'O': '15', 'P': '16', 'Q': '17', 'R': '18', 'S': '19',
                'T': '20', 'U': '21', 'V': '22', 'W': '23', 'X': '24', 'Y': '25', 'Z': '26'}
cometList = list(comet)
groupList = list(group)
numList =[]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 72

Answers (2)

gog
gog

Reputation: 11347

word = "comet"
codes = [alphabet[letter] for letter in word.upper()]

You don't need a list of letters - just iterate the word directly.

Upvotes: 2

shaktimaan
shaktimaan

Reputation: 12092

This is what you are looking for:

cometList = 'comet'
numList = [alphabetList[letter.upper()] for letter in cometList]

Upvotes: 0

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