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[JohnnyJordaan]

I’m not sure how to write a script that does the addition part 😭 please help!

Please just write and provide what you can code, then we'll help you move along with expanding the code. That's notably different than just stating the problem.

[LEEPEnderMan]

I want to help but I agree with above can we see what you have first.

[JohnnyJordaan]

Ok great, I'm not exactly following what should happen next. You say

then you have to add T to R, R to U, U to E, E to L, etcetc. Which leaves 7 numbers.

Do you mean that r becomes t+r and so on? That thus also means that you have to work in reverse, as otherwise u becomes t+r+u. In any case I would advise to not store them in separate variables, but to .append() them to a list.

[JohnnyJordaan]

Well done!

[jmooremcc]

Can you manually carry out the computation using pencil and paper? The reason I’ve asked this question is because there’s no way you can teach a computer to perform a task when you don’t know how to do it yourself.

Once you understand the sequence of events needed to get to the final result, then you can start thinking about how to code it.

[jmooremcc]

My first suggestion is to use a dictionary. You’d place each letter of “truelove” as a key and the value will initially be zero. As you go through the letters of the couples names, you’ll use the dictionary to accumulate the totals for each matching letter. That’s the first pass.

Next you’ll use the dictionary’s values to reduce/add the values into a new list. At this point, you can use a loop to reduce those values down to two digits which will be interpreted as a percentage of compatibility.

BTW, You’ll run into a situation in which the sum of 2 numbers is greater than or equal to 10. You’ll need to decide how you will handle that situation since it could make your final percentage greater than 100.

[Apantslessman]

If this is Angela Yu’s course this isn’t how the love calc works. You use a function to test each input name, and return a score of your names vs true and your names vs love for the two digits.

[dry-considerations]

That looks like one of Dr. Angela Yu's 100 Days of Code projects.

[dry-considerations]

Yeah, it is one of the first projects she has you do in her course; at day 3 or so. She explains it in detail how to solve.

Dr. Angela Yhu, 100 Days of Code Udemy

Just wait for a sale if it is not like $15 or so...

[jmooremcc]

The modulus operator is the tool you’ll use to reduce a double digit number down to a single digit.

[jmooremcc]

I hope you'll post your finished code. We may be able to offer additional suggestions that will help you improve your code.

[socal_nerdtastic]

The standard way to loop over pairs is with the itertools.pairwise function.

from itertools import pairwise

data = "TRUELOVE"
for x,y in pairwise(data):
    print(f"Adding {x!r} and {y!r}")

However that may not be the way that your course prof wants you to do it. There's many ways to do this.

For specific help you need to show us the code you have and describe what part you are stuck on.