###There's an easier way.
There's an easier way.
We have the num2words
module which can be easily installed via pip
:
pip install num2words
The advantage of this module is that it supports multiple languages:
- en (English, default)
- fr (French)
- de (German)
- es (Spanish)
- lt (Lithuanian)
- lv (Latvian)
- en_GB (British English)
- en_IN (Indian English)
- no (Norwegian)
- pl (Polish)
- ru (Russian)
- dk (Danish)
- pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese)
More, you can even generate ordinal numbers like forty-second.
A small python example for converting numbers to words using num2words
looks like this:
>>> from num2words import num2words
>>> num2words(42)
forty-two
>>> num2words(42, ordinal=True)
forty-second
You can read more about what you can do using this module here
NOTE: In case somebody is wondering why this is not a code review (such as comments on the posted code), is because in the unedited question the author specifically asked if there is already a library for this.