[Tutor] numbers from a name

[Goofball223@wmconnect.com]

Hello

with the following program I would like it to be able to take a person's name 
 and then assign values to each letter and come up with a sum of all the 
letters in the name. for example if I entered bob. i would like the program to be 
able to print bob and then print the total of bob which would be 2 + 15 + 2 = 
18. 





import string

def main():
    value = (raw_input("Please enter your first name"))

     table = {'a' : 1, 'b' : 2, 'c' : 3, 'd' : 4, 'e' : 5, 'f' : 6, 'g' : 7, 
'h' : 8, 'i' : 9, 'j' : 10, 'k' : 11, 'l' : 12, 'm' : 13, 'n' : 14, 'o' : 15, 
'p' : 16, 'q' : 17, 'r' : 18, 's' : 19, 't' : 20, 'u' :         21, 'v' : 22, 
'w' : 23, 'x' : 24, 'y' : 25, 'z' : 26}


     total = 0
     name = list(name)

     for string in name:
         total += table[string.lower()]
     print "The total of your name is:", total

main()

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