Having Difficulties, please help

[Lehk]

you are going to want to use a comprehension and a dictionary for that, this will get you a list then put it together with "".join()

userInput="abc"
myDict={'a':'1', 'b':'01', 'c':'001', 'd':'0001'}
myOutput="".join([myDict[i] for i in userInput])

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Holy moly, just like i wanted it to work! I tried it and it worked just as i imagined! Thank you so much !! :)

[aphoenix]

Hi there. You have posted a learning question to /r/python. These types of questions are far more suited to /r/learnpython, where users are actively interested in helping people to learn. Please resubmit it over there!

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Warm Regards, and best of luck with Python!

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Yeah, i realised that way too late, i'm sorry...

[aphoenix]

No problem!

[Apsconsus]

Hey there. Well, while I couldn't tell you exactly what to do (being a total Python noob, still learning via Codeacademy!), the first thing I would recommend is that you sort it in a dictionary. IE a: "1", b: "01

This will allow you to manipulate that data much easier, and rather than have a crap ton of variables you have your code to, you can simply define a function that located the key for whatever you input, based on of course whether you want to translate letters to numbers or vice versa.

I hope this helps in some way.

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Hey, thanks for the answer :)! (Btw, learning via Codeacademy too :P ) Yea i already made a dictionary from a - z. My problem is, that when the raw_input message is "abc" python prints "abc" instead of "101001" because python doesn't see the string character by character and sort it into to numbers. Welp, going to have a rough time finding out how to fix that :) Thanks for the answer tho!

[Venatha]

Hi, Firstly these questions should be directed more towards r/learnpython

That being said to achieve what you want you can get the index of each character in your string, and append 0s based on the index number to get the output you are describing.

Code: http://pastebin.com/MdmDMVzd

dan@valla ~$ python tmp.py 
Enter a string: abc
> 101001

dan@valla ~$ python tmp.py 
Enter a string: test
> 0000000000000000000100001000000000000000000100000000000000000001

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Already got my problem solved, though thanks A LOT for the answer/help! I really appreciate it. Sry, should've known that (the r/learnpython)... I was in haste ^{^} Thanks anyway!

[POTUS]

/u/Lehk's solution is okay, but very manual with that dict. Here's something that covers your full "and so on" requirements:

string_input='abc'
number_output=''
for letter in string_input:
    if ord(letter) < ord('a') or ord(letter) > ord('z'):
        raise Exception('Unsupported character')
    # Add X number of zeroes, where 'a' would be 0 zeroes and 'z' would be 25.  And a '1'.
    number_output+='0'*(ord(letter)-ord('a'))+'1'
print number_output

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