How can I file.find("a","b","c"..... etc. "z") and ord("A","B","C"..... etc. "Z") in python

Question

Hi I can't find another question that answers this because it is really basic. I'm learning python and my current code will have to be copy and pasted for every letter of the alphabet. Instead how can I use find() and ord() for a range/AZ.

This is my code at the moment:

A = (ord("A")-64)*(file.find("a"))
if A < 0:
    A = 0
B = (ord("B")-64)*(file.find("b"))
if B < 0:
    B = 0
C = (ord("C")-64)*(file.find("c"))
if C < 0:
    C = 0

print(A+B+C)

I want to do this all the way to Z but there must be a way to do that without copying and pasting.

If you can help, thank you so much. I've tried file.find("a","b"...) but this wouldn't work.

Answer 1

You can use the strings library or just decare the alphabets on your own

with String library:

import string
alphabets = string.ascii_lowercase
print(alphabets)

Outputs:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

And now you can loop over it:

for characters in alphabets:
    print(characters) # replace this with your code

Put your code instead of the print statement. Similarly for uppercase import uppercase from string instead of lowercase.