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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:03:23 +0100
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On 2014-10-23 21:44, Seymore4Head wrote:
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>
> I tried to make range(10) work in Python 3 by:
>          if int(y) in range(10):
>              name.append(str(y))
>
> It doesn't.
>
You didn't say what happened when you tried, but I can guess.

When given, say, "g", it complains that it's not valid. Well, "g" isn't
a valid digit, so no surprise there!

> def nametonumber(name):
>      lst=[]
>      for y in (name):
>          y.lower()

The .lower method _returns_ its result, which is just discarded.

What you need is:

     y = y.lower()

>          if int(y) in range(10):

Non-digits don't have a numeric value, so that can fail.

>              name.append(str(y))

y is already a string, so str(y) is pointless.

>          if y in " -()":
>              name.append(y)
>          if y in "abc":
>              name.append("2")
>          if y in "def":
>              name.append("3")
>          if y in "ghi":
>              name.append("4")
>          if y in "jkl":
>              name.append("5")
>          if y in "mno":
>              name.append("6")
>          if y in "pqrs":
>              name.append("7")
>          if y in "tuv":
>              name.append("8")
>          if y in "wxyz":
>              name.append("9")
>      number="".join(str(e) for e in name)

The elements of the list name are already strings.

>      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))
>