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I'm new to programming. I tried to find a way to convert numbers into letters with Python. I would like to receive some advice to improve myself. This program works for numbers between 1 and 10⁶ and I would like to know how the logic of the program can be improved.

def changeNumberIntoLetter(value):

    number=numToLetter(value)

    return number



def numToLetter(value): #The function converts the numbers into letters. 

    if value==1: return 'one'

    elif value==2: return 'two'

    elif value==3: return 'three'

    elif value==4: return 'four'

    elif value==5: return 'five'

    elif value==6: return 'six'

    elif value==7: return 'seven'

    elif value==8: return 'eight'

    elif value==9: return 'nine'

    elif value==10: return 'ten'

    elif value==11: return 'eleven'

    elif value==12: return 'twelve'

    elif value==13: return 'thirteen'

    elif 13<value<=19: return composeTeen(value)

    elif value>19:

        if value==20: return 'twenty'

        elif value==30: return 'thirty'

        elif value==50: return 'fifty'

        elif value==10**2: return 'one hundred'

        elif value==10**3: return 'one thousand'

        elif value==10**5: return 'one hundred thousand'

        elif value==10**6: return 'one milion'

        elif value>=20: return composeNumbers(value)

        else: exit('Out of range')

    else: return ''



def composeNumbers(value):   #The function build every number biger than 40 

    if 40<=value<10**2:

        value1=int(str(value)[0])

        value2= int(str(value)[1])

        if value1==2: 

           value1= 'twen'

           return value1 + 'ty' + '-' + numToLetter(value2)

        if value1==3: 

           value1='thir'

           return value1 + 'ty' + '-' + numToLetter(value2)

        if value1==8: 

            value1='eigh'

            return value1 + 'ty' + '-' + numToLetter(value2)

        elif value1==5: 

            value1='fif'

            return value1 + 'ty' + '-' + numToLetter(value2)

        return numToLetter(value1) + 'ty' + '-' + numToLetter(value2)        

    elif 10**2<=value<10**3:

        value1=int(str(value)[0])

        value2= int(str(value)[1:])

        return numToLetter(value1) + ' ' + 'hundred' + ' ' + numToLetter(value2)

    elif 10**3<=value<10**4:

        value1=int(str(value)[0])

        value2=int(str(value)[1:]) 

    elif 10**4<=value<10**5:

        value1=int(str(value)[0:2])

        value2=int(str(value)[2:])

    elif 10**5<=value<10**6:

        value1=int(str(value)[0:3])

        value2=int(str(value)[3:])

    return numToLetter(value1) + ' ' + 'thousand' + ' ' + numToLetter(value2)







def composeTeen(value): #The function takes the unit and then converts it into letter to build the word.

    value= int(str(value)[-1])  #It turns elem in string to take the last position and it converts it again in integer to change it in letters. Then it composes the word adding 'teen' at the end.

    value= numToLetter(value) 

    if value=='five': value= 'fif'

    value= value + 'teen'

    return value

I did this by inflect pypi library:

import inflect



ig = inflect.engine()

print(ig.number_to_words(85))

Out:

eighty-five

[NOTE]:

Install inflect library by pip:

$ pip install inflect

Furthermore, I found this method too:

>>> import num2word

>>> num2word.to_card(15)

'fifteen'

>>> num2word.to_card(55)

'fifty-five'

>>> num2word.to_card(1555)

'one thousand, five hundred and fifty-five'

[NOTE]:

_{These are the Github link of mentioned libraries if you want to know how they implemented:}

• _{inflect Github}


• _{num2words Github}

This is good work! Well done as a beginner programmer.

def changeNumberIntoLetter(value):

    number=numToLetter(value)

    return number

This function doesn't really do anything useful to be honest. Can't you directly use numToLetter.

if value==1: return 'one'

elif value==2: return 'two'

elif value==3: return 'three'

elif value==4: return 'four'

elif value==5: return 'five'

elif value==6: return 'six'

Instead of creating lot of if statements. Try using a dictionary like this:

NUM_TO_WORD_MAPPING = {1: "one", 2: "two"}

and you can refer the string to number using

if value in NUM_TO_WORD_MAPPING:

    return NUM_TO_WORD_MAPPING[value]

else:

    # ... special cases.

int(str(value)[-1])

use value % 10 to extract numbers easily. This is modulo operator and returns remainder after division.