Brute force

We first get the huge list of names in python, we just need to remove the "" around them.

From read_file.py:

def read_file(filename):
    with open(filename, "r") as file:
        return [name[1:-1] for name in file.read().split(",")]

Then we just need to sum the letters of the names by their position in the alphabet. Since all the names are capitalized, we can remove ord('A') + 1 to get their position in the alphabet. The last step is to sum the position of the names in the list by its value.

From solution1.py:

def names_scores(filename):
    names = read_file(filename).sort()
    return sum((i + 1) * sum(ord(c) - ord("A") + 1 for c in name) for (i, name) in enumerate(names))