Raja S. raja at cs.indiana.edu
Mon Oct 9 13:26:38 EDT 2000

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Common Lisp's format statement has a "~r" directive which can be used to
convert a numeral into it's English description:

* (format t "~r" 1992)
one thousand nine hundred ninety-two

* (format t "~R" 1992)
one thousand nine hundred ninety-two

* (format t "~R" 47)
forty-seven

* (format t "~R" 2000)
two thousand

* (format t "~R" 2001)
two thousand one

Is there a pre-existing way of doing the equivalent in Python?

Thanks in advance.

Raja

Thought I'd ask first before building something custom.
Should be straight forward to do for a limited range though the CL folks have
pretty much gone all the way !!

* (format t "~R" 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890)

one duodecillion two hundred thirty-four undecillion five hundred
sixty-seven decillion eight hundred ninety nonillion one hundred
twenty-three octillion four hundred fifty-six septillion seven hundred
eighty-nine sextillion twelve quintillion three hundred forty-five
quadrillion six hundred seventy-eight trillion nine hundred one billion two
hundred thirty-four million five hundred sixty-seven thousand eight hundred
ninety

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