Problem with a dictionary program....

[Dan Perl]

The keys in your dictionary are numbers and the variable 'character' in your 
program is a character.  That means one is equivalent to a=1, the other one 
is equivalent to a="1".  Either make the keys in the dictionary strings 
(i.e., {"1":"one", ...) or convert 'character' to an integer with int( ).

"Ling Lee" <janimal at mail.trillegaarden.dk> wrote in message 
news:41597d62$0$23054$ba624c82 at nntp05.dk.telia.net...
> So this code should work:
>
> indput = raw_input(" Tell me the number you want to transform to textuel 
> representaion")
> try:
>    indput = str(int(indput))
> except ValueError:
>    print "No, you need to give me an integer."
>
> List = 
> {1:"one",2:"two",3:"three",4:"four",5:"five",6:"six",7:"seven",8:"eight",9:"nine"}
> output = []
> for character in indput:
>  output.append(List[character])
>  print ', '.join(output)
>
> I read it like this first output is an empty list, then for each character 
> in the input it will be run through the "List" and when it find the number 
> it will apend it to the output, and in the last print line it will join 
> the output ( if there has been more than one number) and print it-
>
> But if I run the program and type in the number 34 I get the error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:/Python23/taltilnumre.py", line 10, in -toplevel-
>    output.append(List[character])
> KeyError: '3'
>
> How can that be, it looks right to me ...
>
> Thanks
>
>
> "Jeffrey Froman" <jeffrey at fro.man> wrote in message 
> news:10liubfprlt4g9d at corp.supernews.com...
>> Ling Lee wrote:
>>
>>> After I have gotten the lenght of the string, I will write a loop, that
>>> goes through the dictionary as many times as the lengt of the string, 
>>> and
>>> the gives me the corresponding numbers, the numner 21 would go 2 times
>>> through the loop and give me the output two one.
>>
>> There is no need to count the length. You can iterate over each character 
>> in
>> a Python string (or other object) without first calculating the size of 
>> the
>> loop, like so:
>>
>> output = []
>> for character in indput:
>> output.append(List[character])
>> print ', '.join(output)
>>
>> As Russel pointed out, you'll have to iterate over indput as as a 
>> string --
>> not convert it to an integer first, because you can't iterate over an
>> integer's digits, but you can iterate over a string's characters.
>>
>> Jeffrey
>
>