Jinal Jhaveri on everything

Convert a list of words to numbers With respect to this article about "Why Python Programmers Should Learn Python (paradox?)", here is my solution to convert a list of words to numbers # this is a fun script tha converts words to number. for e.g Nine Seven Three to 973 # Author (Jinal Jhaveri ) import sys WORDS_TO_NUM = { 'zero':0, 'one':1, 'two':2, 'three':3, 'four':4, 'five':5, 'six':6, 'seven':7, 'eight':8, 'nine':9, 'ten':10 } # Takes a list of words and generates a number out of it. Exits with error # if the word is invalid and cannot be converted to a number # # NOTE THAT THIS ONLY WORKS FOR POSITIVE NUMBERS # # @arg words : list of words # @return void def WordsToNumber(words): num = 0 # this will store the number for word in words: try: num = num*10 + WORDS_TO_NUM[word.lower()] except KeyError: print "Found an invalid word" sys.exit(1) return num if