# numberwords.py # -------------- # By MWC Contributors # Functions to print out a verbal representation of an integer. MAXIMUM = 1000000 DIGIT_NAMES = [ "zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine" ] TWEEN_AND_TEEN_NAMES = [ "ten", "eleven", "twelve", "thirteen", "fourteen", "fifteen", "sixteen", "seventeen", "eighteen", "nineteen" ] TENS_NAMES = [ "ten", "twenty", "thirty", "forty", "fifty", "sixty", "seventy", "eighty", "ninety" ] def int_under_1000000_to_str(number): "Returns a textual representation of the number." check_number_in_range(abs(number), 0, MAXIMUM) if number < 1000: return int_under_1000_to_str(number) else: thousands, hundreds = divide_with_remainder(number, 1000) thousands_text = int_under_1000_to_str(thousands) hundreds_text = int_under_1000_to_str(hundreds) return thousands_text + " thousand " + hundreds_text def int_under_1000_to_str(number): "Returns a textual representation of the number" check_number_in_range(number, 0, 1000) if number < 100: return int_under_100_to_str(number) else: hundreds, tens = divide_with_remainder(number, 100) hundreds_text = int_under_10_to_str(hundreds) tens_text = int_under_100_to_str(tens) return hundreds_text + " hundred and " + tens_text def int_under_100_to_str(number): check_number_in_range(number, 0, 100) tens, ones = divide_with_remainder(number, 10) if tens == 0: return int_under_10_to_str(number) elif tens == 1: return TWEEN_AND_TEEN_NAMES[ones] else: return TENS_NAMES[tens] + '-' + int_under_10_to_str(ones) def int_under_10_to_str(number): check_number_in_range(number, 0, 10) return DIGIT_NAMES[number] def check_number_in_range(number, minimum, maximum): """Checks whether a number is at least minimum and less than maximum. Raises an error if the number is not in range. """ if number < minimum: raise ValueError(f"{number} must not be below {minimum}.") if number >= maximum: raise ValueError(f"{number} must be less than {maximum}.") def divide_with_remainder(dividend, divisor): """Divides one number by another, using whole-number division. Returns the quotient and the remainder. Note how a function can return more than one value! """ quotient = dividend // divisor remainder = dividend % divisor return quotient, remainder