Assign Alphabet to Each Element in Python

When it is required to assign an alphabet to every element of an integer list, the ‘ascii_lowercase’ method, and the list comprehension are used.

Example

Below is a demonstration of the same −

import string

my_list = [11, 51, 32, 45, 21, 66, 12, 58, 90, 0]

print("The list is : " )
print(my_list)

print("The list after sorting is : " )
my_list.sort()
print(my_list)

temp_val = {}
my_counter = 0

for element in my_list:
   if element in temp_val:
      continue
   temp_val[element] = string.ascii_lowercase[my_counter]
   my_counter += 1

my_result = [temp_val.get(element) for element in my_list]

print("The resultant list is : ")
print(my_result)

Output

The list is :
[11, 51, 32, 45, 21, 66, 12, 58, 90, 0]
The list after sorting is :
[0, 11, 12, 21, 32, 45, 51, 58, 66, 90]
The resultant list is :
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j']

Explanation

• The required packages are imported into the environment.

• A list of integers is defined and is displayed on the console.

• It is sorted using the ‘sort’ method and is displayed on the console again.

• An empty dictionary is defined.

• A counter is initialized to 0.

• It is iterated over, and the ‘continue’ operator is used when a condition is satisfied.

• Otherwise, the ‘ascii_lowercase’ method is used and assigned to a specific index in the dictionary.

• A list comprehension is used to iterate over the list and uses ‘get’ method.

• The elements from this are stored in a list and assigned to a variable.