Jan-09-2022, 12:39 AM
I never heard of inflect before, and I will probably never need it, but it is interesting.
I don't think I will ever have a good grasp of re!
Personally, I would make a dictionary of dictionaries for authors and books. Make the first key the author name and the value a dictionary. Save it to json.
The sub dictionary keys would be the book names and the values any details.
Also, you could split the Written Time and Published Time to make things easier.
If you simply entered all numbers as numbers, the solution would be very simple.
Nevertheless, it was interesting for me, made a change from solving sudokus!
This works for me, I hope it works for you too, or at least gives you some ideas!
I don't think I will ever have a good grasp of re!
Personally, I would make a dictionary of dictionaries for authors and books. Make the first key the author name and the value a dictionary. Save it to json.
The sub dictionary keys would be the book names and the values any details.
Also, you could split the Written Time and Published Time to make things easier.
If you simply entered all numbers as numbers, the solution would be very simple.
Nevertheless, it was interesting for me, made a change from solving sudokus!
This works for me, I hope it works for you too, or at least gives you some ideas!
def myApp():
import re
import inflect
import json
dict_keys = ['Book Number', 'Book Names', 'Number of Pages', 'Time Written or Published', 'Authors']
book_nums = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21]
book_names = ['For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'Brave New World', 'Nineteen Eighty-Four',
'The Sound and the Fury', 'Gone with the Wind', "Lady Chatterley's Lover",
'The Hound of the Baskervilles', 'I Am Number 4', 'The Great Gatsby',
'The War of the Worlds', 'The Lord of the Rings', 'Martin Eden', 'On the Road',
"A Room of One's Own", 'Lord Jim', 'Manhattan Transfer', "Sophie's Choice",
'The Catcher in the Rye', 'No Orchids For Miss Blandish',
'The Origins of Totalitarianism The Burden of Our Time', 'Fahrenheit 451']
book_pages = [None, 311, 328, 326, '1037 (first edition), 1024 (Warner Books Paperback)',
None, None, 440, None, 287, 'original manuscripts, which total 9,250 pages',
None, 320, 172, None, None, 562, 234, None, 704, 256]
book_time = [1940, 1932, 1949, 1929, 1936, 1928, '1901–02', 2009, 1925, 1898, '1954–55',
1909, 1957, 1929, 1900, 1925, 1979, 1951, 1939, 1951, 1953]
book_author = ['Ernest Hemingway', 'Aldous Huxley', 'George Orwell', 'William Faulkner',
'Margaret Mitchell', 'D.H. Lawrence', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', 'Jobie Hughes',
'James Frey', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', 'H.G. Wells', 'J.R.R. Tolkien', 'Jack London',
'Jack Kerouac', 'Virginia Woolf', 'Joseph Conrad', 'John Dos Passos',
'William Styron', 'J.D. Salinger', 'James Hadley Chase', 'Hannah Arendt', 'Ray Bradbury']
values = [book_nums, book_names, book_pages, book_time, book_author]
# make the dictionary from your data
book_dict1 = {dict_keys[i]:values[i] for i in range(len(dict_keys))}
# have a look at the dictionary
for key in book_dict1.keys():
print(key)
print(book_dict1[key])
numname = inflect.engine()
# in case you want a list again
def string2list(astring):
newstring = astring.replace('[', '').replace(']', '').replace('\'', '')
mylist = newstring.split(', ')
return mylist
# make the first letter of the number word a capital letter
def capitalise(adict):
for key in adict.keys():
word = adict[key]
firstletter = word[0].upper()
newword = firstletter + word[1:]
adict[key] = newword
return adict
# re.sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0)
def listnums2words(alist):
mystring = str(alist)
nums = re.findall(r'\d+', mystring)
if len(nums) == 0:
return alist
numwords = {n:numname.number_to_words(n) for n in nums}
caps_dict = capitalise(numwords)
for key in caps_dict.keys():
changed = re.sub(key, caps_dict[key], mystring, count=0)
mystring = changed
result = mystring.replace('None', 'Zero')
return result
for key in book_dict1.keys():
mylist = book_dict1[key]
# newvalue may now be a string not a list
newvalue = listnums2words(mylist)
book_dict1[key] = newvalue
# if you want a list as value
for key in book_dict1.keys():
print(key)
print(book_dict1[key])
print(type(book_dict1[key]))
if not type(book_dict1[key]) == list:
newlist = string2list(book_dict1[key])
book_dict1[key] = newlist
for key in book_dict1.keys():
print(key)
print(book_dict1[key])
mypath = '/home/pedro/temp/books_data_json.json'
with open(mypath, 'w') as json_file:
json.dump(book_dict1, json_file)
print('data saved to', mypath)
print('All done!')
