Project Euler 22

PE22.py

# function to get the alphabetical value
def value(char):
    return ord(char) - 64

# open file and sort the strings
file = open('names.txt','r')
names = file.read().split(',')
names = sorted(names)

total = 0

for name in names:
    val = 0
    for char in name:
        if ord(char) >= 65:   # excludes the " characters
            val += value(char)
    total += (val * (names.index(name) + 1))

print total