[Tutor] correcting an Active State Recipe for conversion to ordinal

[Serdar Tumgoren]

Hi folks,

A few months back I posted my first (and only) "recipe" to
ActiveState. It was just a little function to convert an integer or
its string representation to an ordinal value: 1 to 1st, 2 to 2nd,
etc.

Not sure if this really qualifies as a recipe, per se, but it was a
handy little function that I needed but couldn't find in Pythonic
version elsewhere on the web (perhaps because it's so simple?).  The
inspiration for the function was a similar one in Django and some Java
code I found online. So I figured I'd share the code once I got it
working.

I just noticed, however, that in the comments section of the
ActiveState recipe that someone is getting incorrect results for
certain numbers (11 and 12, specifically).

But when I use the code on my own machine it still works fine. So I
was hoping that you all could help me "crowdsource" the issue. If you
have the time and inclination, could you look at the code and tell me
if and where I've gone wrong? And of course, if there's a simpler way
to perform the conversion I'd be glad to update the recipe.  I
certainly don't want something out in the wilds of the Web that's
incorrect, inelegant or just plain confusing.

Here's the link to the recipe:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576888/

Your advice, as always, is appreciated.

Regards,
Serdar