inhahe <inhahe at gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 8:41 AM Pankaj Jangid <pankaj.jangid at gmail.com> > wrote: >>> You can do something like this ;-) >>>>>> import math >>>> def add_vat(a, b): >> return math.ceil(100*(a * 0.57 + sum([ord(c) for c in list(b)]) * >> 0.15538))/100 >>>> print(add_vat(101, 'high')) >> print(add_vat(101, 'low')) >>>> -- >> Pankaj Jangid >> -- >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >>> BAD BAD BAD don't do Pankaj's suggestion, tim, it's DEVILSPEAK :-( what did I do? This is giving correct ans. hahahaha -- Pankaj Jangid