Converting String to Ordinal Value

Question

I\'m looking to compute the sum of the ordinal values of all the characters of the full name string, and will output this sum.

here is what I have so far.

Answer 1

If you only concatenate a and b you will get 695:

print(sum(ord(i) for i in a+b))
# 695

But, it seems you also need a space between the first and last name:

print(sum(ord(i) for i in '{0} {1}'.format(a, b)))
# 727

Answer 2

Simply use a for loop like so num=sum([ord(i) for i in c],0) assuming c is "Mary Joe" or the string you want. Also, you should use raw_input if you want the user to give you a string, and for printing use print "your full name is: " + c