gistfile1.py

import string

def holes(letter):
    holes_input = string.ascii_letters
    holes_output = "1101101000000011100000000012010000000000111100000000"
    holes_table = maketrans(holes_input, holes_output)    
    return int(letter.translate(holes_table))

def count_holes(text):
    text = text.replace(' ', '')  # Ignore spaces
    return sum([holes(letter) for letter in text])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    input = 'paralelepipedo'
    print count_holes(input)