Solution to Problem 22

Project Euler/Problem 22/sol1.py

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+# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
+from __future__ import print_function
+'''
+Name scores
+Problem 22
+
+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?
+'''
+try:
+	xrange		#Python 2
+except NameError:
+	xrange = range	#Python 3
+
+with open('p022_names.txt') as file:
+	names = str(file.readlines()[0])
+	names = names.replace('"', '').split(',')
+
+names.sort()
+
+name_score = 0
+total_score = 0
+
+for i, name in enumerate(names):
+	for letter in name:
+		name_score += ord(letter) - 64
+
+	total_score += (i+1)*name_score
+	name_score = 0
+
+print(total_score)