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Map Cordinates Python

A road map defines locations as map references like B3, where B is the x-coordinate value and 3 is the y-coordinate.

The grid lines are 0.5 km apart.

I'm writing a program that allows the user to enter a trip as a sequence of any number of map references on one line, and reports the total length of the trip, assuming they can travel in straight lines.
Like in the below picture:

Can please somebody instruct me how to do this?

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Answered by SixBeeps [earned 5 cycles]

For the distance formula, you should only need your language's sqrt function, then just do simple mathematical functions from there.

For the letter conversion, I'd do something like


arrayOfLetters = ['A', 'B', 'C', ... , 'Y', 'Z']
indexOfT = arrayOfLetters.index('T')