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convert numbers to words - Skaperen - Aug-06-2023
i want to convert numbers into words. i wrote code in C to do this a couple decades ago. i have also converted it to Pike many years ago. i have also already converted it to Python, but this was as a command. now, i am thinking about a function. what i want to know is, if this is duplicating anything that is built into Python. the code needs a lot of work since the Python version was written when i was beginning in Python, so i will just re-write the command to use the function and put all my re-coding effort into the function.
if there is any other version "out there" i am hoping it is multi-lingual for at least several languages. my version is English-only and i have no experience developing internationalized code.
should i also support float, decimal.Decimal, and even complex numbers? i want to have an optional 2nd argument that is the value to return if the given number value exceeds the maximum value that can be converted.
i think if the given value is float and has a whole number value, i should append " point zero" which would indicate it is float with no fraction. what do you think? this would need to be done however "they" do it for languages beyond English.
RE: convert numbers to words - Larz60+ - Aug-07-2023
this can be done without much effort using NLTK
list can be customized by category
A full (huge) corpus is part of the package.
see: https://www.nltk.org/_modules/nltk/corpus/reader/wordlist.html
installation
I have used this 'package' it's a lot of fun.
RE: convert numbers to words - Skaperen - Aug-22-2023
NLTK seems to do a lot more than i want. i want just conversion to words, not from words. but i am sure there are many other needs for conversion from words. the code i once wrote in Pike only does US English so i could hard code much of it. i have translated it to C and Python3. but i would like to do many more languages. converting from words could be an interesting problem, especially with multi-lingual support. just doing those i am familiar with would be hard enough even if i leave out support for Roman Numerals.
see: http://ipal.org/py/fun/num_to_words_en_us.py
size: 4921 bytes
sha256: 98ac98ca8b4348d731d9723e771b531f76b3adfae1825c1f3080a08448c4a54a
RE: convert numbers to words - Skaperen - Aug-22-2023
that URL was a function-only file. it has the important code. if you want to get the command code you get it here:
see: http://ipal.net/py/cmd/numwords.py
size: 8549 bytes
sha256: deff582f8ed71aabaec9911d9ff376e4788d218624175208836aa6057e18b900