[Tutor] Is there an easily or shorter way?

[Bod Soutar]

On 15 December 2014 at 21:25, Ken G. <beachkidken at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am sure there is a better way to refine the following lines.
>
> Letting x equal a number from 1 to 28, go through 28 separate 'if'
> statements to print a resulting value that equaled the value of x.
>
> For example:
>
> x = 8
>
> if x = 1, print 'one'
> if x = 2, print 'two'
> ...
> ...
> if x = 8, print 'eight'
> ...
> ...
> if x = 28, print 'twenty eight'
>
> Would a single line using list or dictionary be shorter?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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If you wanted to do this without additional libraries, consider how
many *unique* words are actually required if you were to write them
all out. You could use a dictionary to map the numbers to their words

-- Bodsda