So for my activity, I want to check if a car number is valid. To validate a given vehicle plate number with 4 digits starting with ‘S’, the following must be done: • Ignore the letter ‘S’ • Assign a number to the letters as follows: A=1, B=2, C=3, …etc. For the number plate SBA 1234, this is converted to 21 1234 • The 6 individual numbers need to be multiplied by 9,4,5,4,3,2 respectively and added together. For the example above, we will get, 2 x 9 + 1 x 4 + 1 x 5 + 2 x 4 + 3 x 3 + 4 x 2 = 52 At the moment I managed to do the first two points and replace the letters with numbers, but for the part where I need to multiply the numbers respectively, I believe python still reads it(Newnum) as a string so I need to convert it to an integer so they can be multiplied. vehicle_num = input("Enter the vehicle number to be validated: ") if "S" in vehicle_num: Newnum = vehicle_num.replace("S","").replace("A","1").replace("B","2").replace("C","3") print(Newnum) else: print("Not working") multiplynum = Newnum multiplynum = ((Newnum[0] * 9) + (Newnum[1] * 4) + (Newnum[2] * 5) + (Newnum[3] * 4) + (Newnum[4] * 3) + (Newnum[5] * 2)) print(Newnum) Continue reading...
