CodingEasycod-g1401

Subject StringsLevel Entry–Mid~10 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

A party game scores player handles: each letter is worth its position in the alphabet ('a' or 'A' is 1, 'b' is 2, ..., 'z' is 26), and every other character is worth nothing. Given a handle, return its total score. For example, 'abz' scores 1 + 2 + 26 = 29, and 'cab_7' scores 3 + 1 + 2 = 6.

Implement

handle_score(handle: str) → int

Examples

in["abz"]out29

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