Solution for problem 22 of Project Euler

euler22.py

alphabet = {'"':0,'A':1,'B':2,'C':3,'D':4,'E':5,'F':6,'G':7,'H':8,'I':9,'J':10,'K':11,'L':12,'M':13,'N':14,'O':15,'P':16,'Q':17,'R':18,'S':19,'T':20,'U':21,'V':22,'W':23,'X':24,'Y':25,'Z':26}

def name_value(name, pos):
    sum = 0
    for letter in name:
        sum += alphabet[letter]
    return sum * pos

names_file = open("names.txt")
names = names_file.readlines()
names_file.close()
names_list = sorted(names[0].split(','))
sum = 0;
counter = 1
for name in names_list:
    sum += name_value(name, counter)
    counter += 1
    
print sum