I want to write a code in Python, which assigns a number to every alphabetical character, like so: a=0, b=1, c=2, ..., y=24, z=25. I personally don't prefer setting up conditions for every single alphabet, and don't want my code look over engineered. I'd like to know the ways I can do this the shortest (meaning the shortest lines of code), fastest and easiest. (What's on my mind is to create a dictionary for this purpose, but I wonder if there's a neater and better way). Any suggestions and tips are in advance appreciated.
You definitely want a dictionary for this, not to declare each as a variable. A simple way is to use a dictionary comprehension with string.ascii_lowercase as:
from string import ascii_lowercase
{v:k for k,v in enumerate(ascii_lowercase)}
# {'a': 0, 'b': 1, 'c': 2, 'd': 3, 'e': 4, 'f': 5...