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[Seymore4Head]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:30:37 -0400, Seymore4Head
<Seymore4Head at Hotmail.invalid> wrote:

One more question.
if y in str(range(10)
Why doesn't that work.
I commented it out and just did it "long hand"

def nametonumber(name):
    lst=[]
    nx=[]
    for x in (name):
        lst.append(x)
    for y in (lst):
        #if y in str(range(10)):
        if y in "1234567890":
            nx.append(y)        
        if y in " -()":
            nx.append(y)
        if y in "abc":
            nx.append("2")
        if y in "def":
            nx.append("3")
        if y in "ghi":
            nx.append("4")
        if y in "jkl":
            nx.append("5")
        if y in "mno":
            nx.append("6")
        if y in "pqrs":
            nx.append("7")
        if y in "tuv":
            nx.append("8")
        if y in "wxyz":
            nx.append("9")
    number="".join(str(e) for e in nx)
    return (number)
a="1-800-getcharter"
print (nametonumber(a))#1800 438 2427 837
a="1-800-leo laporte"
print (nametonumber(a))
a="1 800 callaprogrammer"
print (nametonumber(a))