IslandT: Summation of alphabet position with python

In this article, we will create a python function that will turn a string into a list, then return the sum of all the positions of the alphabets within that list based on a-z. a = 1, b =2 and so on, all the alphabets within that given string will be in lower case.

def words_to_marks(s):
    
    word_list = list(s)
    a_z = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x','y', 'z']
    sum = 0
    for w in word_list:
        sum += a_z.index(w) + 1
    return sum

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