On 12/7/18 11:24 PM, jf...@ms4.hinet.net wrote: > Ian at 2018/12/8 UTC+8 AM11:28:34 wrote: >> What is it exactly that you're trying to accomplish with this? Perhaps >> there's a better way than using eval. > This problem comes from solving a word puzzle, > ab + aa + cd == ce > Each character will be translate to a digit and evaluate the correctness, > 03 + 00 + 15 == 18 > For the classic version of that problem, a = 0 is not allowed, since you never in 'normal' life write number with leading zeros, the alpha-math problems never have leading zeros either.
As other have said, the work to compute the value yourself rather than due the text substitution and eval is close to comparable. -- Richard Damon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
