On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:11:24 -0500 Serdar Tumgoren <zstumgo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > A few months back I posted my first (and only) "recipe" to > ActiveState. It was just a little function to convert an integer or > its string representation to an ordinal value: 1 to 1st, 2 to 2nd, > etc. > > Not sure if this really qualifies as a recipe, per se, but it was a > handy little function that I needed but couldn't find in Pythonic > version elsewhere on the web (perhaps because it's so simple?). The > inspiration for the function was a similar one in Django and some Java > code I found online. So I figured I'd share the code once I got it > working. > > I just noticed, however, that in the comments section of the > ActiveState recipe that someone is getting incorrect results for > certain numbers (11 and 12, specifically). > > But when I use the code on my own machine it still works fine. So I > was hoping that you all could help me "crowdsource" the issue. If you > have the time and inclination, could you look at the code and tell me > if and where I've gone wrong? And of course, if there's a simpler way > to perform the conversion I'd be glad to update the recipe. I > certainly don't want something out in the wilds of the Web that's > incorrect, inelegant or just plain confusing. > > Here's the link to the recipe: > > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576888/ > > Your advice, as always, is appreciated. > > Regards, > Serdar No time to search for the issue, but here are some trials (hole from 10 --> 19): for i in range(21): print "%s\t: %s" %(i,ordinal(i)) for i in (-1,22,33,99,100,101,199,200,999,1000): print "%s\t: %s" %(i,ordinal(i)) ==> 0 : 0th 1 : 1st 2 : 2nd 3 : 3rd 4 : 4th 5 : 5th 6 : 6th 7 : 7th 8 : 8th 9 : 9th 10 : None 11 : None 12 : None 13 : None 14 : None 15 : None 16 : None 17 : None 18 : None 19 : None 20 : 20th -1 : -1th 22 : 22nd 33 : 33rd 99 : 99th 100 : 100th 101 : 101st 102 : 102nd 103 : 103rd 199 : 199th 200 : 200th 999 : 999th 1000 : 1000th Denis ________________________________ la vita e estrany http://spir.wikidot.com/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
