I am out of trial and error again Lists

[Seymore4Head]

BTW I know I didn't check for Caps yet.

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 18:30:17 -0400, Seymore4Head
<Seymore4Head at Hotmail.invalid> wrote:

>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))