How do I turn digits into texts in Python?

Question

How do I create a function that returns digits into texts? For example, turning 33 into 'three three'.

My code so far:

table = {
    1: "one",
    2: "two",
    3: "three",
    4: "four",
    5: "five",
    6: "six",
    7: "seven",
    8: "eight",
    9: "nine",
    10: "ten"
}

def digits_to_text(s):
    return table.get(s)

this only works if it is a single digit to turn into text.

Does this answer your question? [How do I tell Python to convert integers into words](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8982163/how-do-i-tell-python-to-convert-integers-into-words) — sahasrara62, Sep 16 '22 at 05:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 16 '22 at 05:07

You could convert the number into a string, split it into characters, convert each character, and combine them together into one string.

table = {
    0: "zero",
    1: "one",
    2: "two",
    3: "three",
    4: "four",
    5: "five",
    6: "six",
    7: "seven",
    8: "eight",
    9: "nine"
}

def digits_to_text(s):
    output = []
    for char in str(s): # convert to string, and loop through each character
        output.append(table.get(int(char))) # convert character to word and add to the list
    return " ".join(output) # join the list together into a single string

Also, your dictionary was missing 0 and had 10, so I changed it in the example.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 16 '22 at 05:10

0

Typecast the number to string.
Iterate across each character
- While typecasting it back to integer for getting values from the dict.

table = {
    0: "zero",
    1: "one",
    2: "two",
    3: "three",
    4: "four",
    5: "five",
    6: "six",
    7: "seven",
    8: "eight",
    9: "nine"
}

def digits_to_text(s):
    return " ".join([table.get(int(i)) for i in str(s)])

answered Sep 16 '22 at 05:10

kehsihba19

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The list comprehension is unnecessary. You can pass a generator expression to `str.join`. – Chris Sep 16 '22 at 05:49

nikeros · Answer 3 · 2022-09-16T07:02:12.400

Looking at the letter of the problem, it does not seem the user does not need to map 0 to anything unless is preceded by a 1, in which case it will be mapped to ten. I don't know if that is a mispecification of the problem or a genuine need. In the first case, solutions above address the objective pretty well. Otherwise, we could take the following approach:

table = {
    1: "one",
    2: "two",
    3: "three",
    4: "four",
    5: "five",
    6: "six",
    7: "seven",
    8: "eight",
    9: "nine",
    10: "ten"
}

def digits_to_letters(s, default= "-"):
    s = list(s)[::-1]
    res = []
    while len(s) > 0:
        l1 = s.pop()
        n1 = int(l1)
        c1 = table.get(n1, " ")
        if (n1 == 1) and (len(s) > 0):
            l2 = s.pop()
            n1n2 = int(l1 + l2)
            c1c2 = table.get(n1n2)
            if c1c2:
                res.append(c1c2)
            else:
                res.append(c1)
                res.append(table.get(int(l2), default))
        else:
            res.append(c1)
    return res
            
print(digits_to_letters("123102303231"))

OUTPUT

['one', 'two', 'three', 'ten', 'two', 'three', ' ', 'three', 'two', 'three', 'one']

As you can see, the forth and fifth characters - 10 - are mapped to ten, while the seventh and eighth - 30 - to three and (there is the option to choose a different default character instead of an empty space).

How do I turn digits into texts in Python?

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