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Radical solution in Creative category for Speech Module by veky

def checkio(n, d=dict(enumerate(" one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve".split(" ")))):
    def i(s, j=iter("o en ree ir ve f t ".split(" "))):
        for k in j: s = __import__("re").sub(k + "$", next(j), s)
        return s
    return(d[n//100]+" hundred "*(n>99)+d.get(n%100,n%100<20and i(d[n%10])+"teen"or i(d[n//10%10]).replace("u","")+"ty "+d[n%10])).strip()

May 4, 2014

Comments:

jkibbe on May 19, 2014, 10:44 p.m.
I always look forward to seeing some of the standard solutions, which are similar to mine but much leaner and more efficient. After that I look for the non-standard solution -- a.k.a Veky's code. I can mostly understand the majority of the solutions I see on this site, but this one is pretty cryptic for me. It looks like line two has a 'letter bank' to spell all of the required numbers. I just don't understand how those letters are chosen! Thanks for your creative approach! I wish I had a tenth of your skills and knowledge! :)

veky on May 20, 2014, 3:49 a.m.
<blockquote> non-standard solution -- a.k.a Veky's code </blockquote> :-D Well, not all of my solutions here are nonstandard, but I see what you mean. <blockquote> It looks like line two has a 'letter bank' to spell all of the required numbers. </blockquote> I don't know what is a "letter bank", but "o en ree ir ve f t " is just all possible inflections when forming tens and teens: if base.endswith(a[i]), replace that ending with a[i+1]. So: <pre class='brush: python'>two -> twen -> twenty three -> thir -> thirty, thirteen five -> fif -> fifty, fifteen eight -> eigh -> eighty, eighteen </pre> In this solution my goal was to exploit natural language patterns as much as possible - not so much to shorten the code itself (thought that's also nice to have:), but to shorten the data, that is, elements of spoken numbers. <blockquote> I wish I had a tenth of your skills and knowledge! :) </blockquote> If you had it, then you'd want a fifth of it (gasp!). :-D

gmixo on April 21, 2015, 9:05 a.m.
is there exists obfuscation masta badge?)

veky on April 21, 2015, 2:53 p.m.
I don't know. And I have a feeling I should know if there is. :-D But I have explained this code. Have you looked at the comments above?

gmixo on April 23, 2015, 11:45 a.m.
yes I could understand the idea with your explainations, thanks, but it takes some more time to understand deeper how it works..

veky on April 23, 2015, 7:24 p.m.
That's exactly intended. You should learn Python here, not solve tasks. :-D

Czarinov on Aug. 21, 2015, 7:54 p.m.
Oh my!...

veky on Aug. 21, 2015, 8:58 p.m.
Exactly. :-D

not_real on Nov. 13, 2015, 7:48 p.m.
🙊

veky on Nov. 14, 2015, 1:24 p.m.
🙉

pherapont on June 29, 2019, 6:23 a.m.
Yes, it's very intresting. You can just look at the dial, or you can design a watch

veky on July 3, 2019, 10:05 a.m.
Or you can let Python design one. ;-D

pherapont on July 4, 2019, 4:26 a.m.
he can't do it in my hands yet :(

veky on July 4, 2019, 6:06 a.m.
Post a link to your solution, you might get a few hints. ;-)

pherapont on July 4, 2019, 6:26 a.m.
Thank you. I'll try to do that. <a href="https://py.checkio.org/mission/speechmodule/solve/">Your link title here…</a> I copied address. But I think, that don't enough

veky on July 7, 2019, 9:31 a.m.
You posted the link to the mission. You're supposed to post your solution. ;-)

Splitter on July 21, 2019, 5:43 p.m.
It looks frighteningly. `i(d[n//10%10]).replace("u","")` seems to be needed only for 'four', doesn't it?

veky on July 21, 2019, 6:53 p.m.
Radically frightening. }:‑) The part after the dot, yes. The part before the dot is generally useful. B-)

Splitter on July 21, 2019, 8:50 p.m.
Really. The part before gives an inflection and `replace` corrects 'four'.

veky on Sept. 18, 2021, 5:18 p.m.
I don't know why people do this (delete comments from a discussion which would be useful for someone else later). The comments were: <blockquote> It looks frighteningly. `i(d[n//10%10]).replace("u","")` seems to be needed only for 'four', doesn't it? Really. The part before gives an inflection and `replace` corrects 'four'. </blockquote>

bsquare on July 29, 2019, 6:58 p.m.
Seriously?! I saw some of your solutions, and generally understand them quite quickly with only my brain, but this one will need some deeper analyses ^^ I like and agree with your approach to give solutions teaching something, instead of just solving tasks (even if I noticed your tactless speaking, which ... removes nothing from your talent ;)) Thanks for you way to entertain even more checkio which is already enjoyable :)

veky on Aug. 7, 2019, 11:09 p.m.
Well, as you progress towards more substantial tasks, this will happen more often. It is ok, the point is to learn, as you say. My tact, or the lack of it, has been discussed here many times already. I think it is a feature. Consider it a price to pay for learning something. :-]

bsquare on Aug. 8, 2019, 8:04 a.m.
'The lack of it' seems more fair ^^ But I understand the 'feature' your are talking about ;)

Bernhard_Pfirsch on Aug. 3, 2019, 3:44 p.m.
Wow!

24esun on Sept. 16, 2021, 12:30 a.m.
Woah, those are some long lines!

veky on Sept. 16, 2021, 1:06 a.m.
Yeah, English is a much more complicated language than Python. ;-))

jorgesenpai on Nov. 9, 2022, 6:04 p.m.
fortunately exists pandunia lang much more simple than english, or even esperanto.

veky on Nov. 9, 2022, 6:54 p.m.
in pandunia this task would be much more trivial. 😛 (<a href="https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-pandunia/en/pandunia/)">https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-pandunia/en/pandunia/)</a> But opposite conversion (words -> digits) would be more interesting. (There's also toki pona, where this task wouldn't make much sense.;)

viktor.chyrkin on June 23, 2022, 1:17 a.m.
Typical Veky code 101.

veky on June 23, 2022, 8:06 p.m.
I'm in the land of weird compliments again. ;)

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