A numerological calculator based on the Kabbalah alphabet. (from Linda Goodman's "Star Signs")

kabala-calc.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# authored by Pratul Kalia in January 2011.
# Released into the public domain.

import sys

# Chaldean-Hebrew Kabala Numberical Alphabet.
# Taken from the book "Star Signs" by Linda Goodman.
def valreturn(character):
    if character == 'a':
        return 1
    elif character == 'b':
        return 2
    elif character == 'c':
        return 3
    elif character == 'd':
        return 4
    elif character == 'e':
        return 5
    elif character == 'f':
        return 8
    elif character == 'g':
        return 3
    elif character == 'h':
        return 5
    elif character == 'i':
        return 1
    elif character == 'j':
        return 1
    elif character == 'k':
        return 2
    elif character == 'l':
        return 3
    elif character == 'm':
        return 4
    elif character == 'n':
        return 5
    elif character == 'o':
        return 7
    elif character == 'p':
        return 8
    elif character == 'q':
        return 1
    elif character == 'r':
        return 2
    elif character == 's':
        return 3
    elif character == 't':
        return 4
    elif character == 'u':
        return 6
    elif character == 'v':
        return 6
    elif character == 'w':
        return 6
    elif character == 'x':
        return 5
    elif character == 'y':
        return 1
    elif character == 'z':
        return 7

# Do the initial conversion into the sum of numbers.
def kabalize(curr_name):
    sum = 0
    for counter in range(0, len(curr_name)):
        letter = curr_name[counter]
        sum = sum + valreturn(letter)

    if (len(str(sum)) > 1):
        squashnumber(sum)
    else:
        print sum

# Keep squashing sum until we get a single digit number
def squashnumber(temp):
    fsum = 0
    fstr = str(temp)
    for counter in range(0, len(fstr)):
        fsum = fsum + int(fstr[counter])

    if (len(str(fsum)) > 1):
        squashnumber(fsum)
    else:
        print fsum

# Let's begin!
for name in sys.argv[1:]:
    kabalize(name)