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Trying to use zfill and increment characters with Python

Hello lovely stackoverflowians!
I am fairly new to programming. Only have been programming a little under 2 months using CS50 which uses C and MITx Python. I went on Codewars and am trying to solve a problem where you basically get an id and then come out with a license plate number like this aaa001...aaa999, aab001...zzz999
if you catch my drift. For some reason my code compiles but when I run it I get this error.
File "/Users/pauliekennedy/Desktop/temp.py", line 9, in find_the_number_plate
a_str = (a_numb.zfill(3), range(0, 10))
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'zfill'
Because of this I am not able to test my code. If you could help me with this problem I would be much appreciated. As well, if you have anything to say about my code in general, tips, advice how to make it better, and if it will achieve this goal at all. Here is my code thanks again all.
#set number to 1 to start
a_numb = 1
#incrementing loop when 999 go back set back 0
while a_numb <1001:
a_numb += 1
a_str = str(a_numb)
# giving the number 00 or just 0 in front
if a_numb < 100:
a_str = (a_numb.zfill(3), range(0, 10))
#resetting the number back to 1
if a_numb == 999:
a_numb = 1
# Setting i to 0 and incrementing the characters
i = 0
ch = 'a'
ch2 = 'a'
ch3 = 'a'
#looping through alphabet
for i in range(26):
ch = chr(ord(ch) + 1)
print(ch)
if i == 26:
i = 0
if ch == 'z':
ch2 = chr(ord(ch) + 1)
if ch == 'z' & ch2 == 'z':
ch3(ord(ch) + 1)
# Adding results together and returning the string of them all
letter_plate = str(ch3 + ch2 + ch)
plate = str(a_numb) + str(letter_plate)
return plate```

Maybe you could consider using f-string string formatting instead:
def find_the_number_plate(customer_id):
number_part = customer_id % 999 + 1
customer_id //= 999
letter_part = ['a', 'a', 'a']
i = 0
while customer_id:
letter_part[i] = chr(ord('a') + customer_id % 26)
customer_id //= 26
i += 1
return f"{''.join(letter_part)}{number_part:03}"

You could use product from itertools to form the license plate numbers from 3 letters and numbers from 1 to 999 formatted with leading zeros:
from itertools import product
letter = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
numbers = (f"{n:03}" for n in range(1,1000))
plates = [*map("".join,product(letter,letter,letter,numbers))]
for plate in plates: print(plate)
aaa001
aaa002
aaa003
aaa004
aaa005
aaa006
aaa007
aaa008
...
If you only need to access a license place at a specific index, you don't have to generate the whole list. You can figure out which plate number will be at a given index by decomposing the index in chunks of 999,26,26,26 corresponding to the available option at each position/chunk of the number.
def plate(i):
letter = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
result = f"{i%999+1:03}"
i //= 999
for _ in range(3):
result = letter[i%26] + result
i //= 26
return result
output:
for i in range(10):print(plate(i))
aaa001
aaa002
aaa003
aaa004
aaa005
aaa006
aaa007
aaa008
aaa009
aaa010
plate(2021) # aac024

Python: Splitting numbers and factor them to 2

This code is to identify if the number factored to 2 for the 4th time, would get 1 or not.
a = int(input())
terms = 4
result = list(map(lambda x: a ** x, range(terms)))
for i in range(terms):
print(a, "^2 = ", result[i])
if result == 1:
print('True')
else:
print('False')
If I input 14, this is the result:
14 ^2 = 1
14 ^2 = 14
14 ^2 = 196
14 ^2 = 2744
False
But I want it to be like this.
1^2 + 4^2 = 17
1^2 + 7^2 = 50
5^2 + 0^2 = 25
2^2 + 5^2 = 29
False

Try this:
a = str(int(input()))
def split_and_print(a):
x = [int(y) for y in list(str(a))]
return sum([y**2 for y in x])
def split_sum_print(a):
a_split = list(str(a))
print(' + '.join([x+'^2' for x in a])+ ' = '+str(split_and_print(a)))
return str(split_and_print(a))
n = 4
for i in range(n):
a = split_sum_print(a)
if a == '1':
print(True)
else:
print(False)
Output:
14
1^2 + 4^2 = 17
1^2 + 7^2 = 50
5^2 + 0^2 = 25
2^2 + 5^2 = 29
False
I made two functions, one responsible for calculation, the other for printing. Then combined them and used a for loop. Change n for different number of iterations.

First of all, a = str(int(input())) seems quite unnecessary, as input() returns string by itself.
Second, you then cast it to string ... in str(a): once again (again unnecessary).
And third of all, you are iterating over some string (a in this case), which would product a stream of single characters, but your code is written as if you expected tuples instead...?
For example
for char in "abc":
print(char)
... would print
a
b
c
What you essentially have
for a, b in "abc":
print(a, b)
... what should happen here?
What do you expect to happen with your code, exactly? 🤔

Function returning 1 instead of the reverse of the Number

Hey I have this function in python3 , can anyone explain why it is giving 1 as output instead of the number as reverse
def reverse(a , rev):
if a > 0:
d = a % 10
rev = (rev * 10) + d
reverse(a/10 , rev)
return rev
b = input("Enter the Number")
x = reverse(b , 0)
print(x)

You need to:
use integer division (//)
capture the value returned from the recursive call, and return it
convert the string input to number (int())
Corrected script:
def reverse(a, rev):
if a > 0:
d = a % 10
rev = (rev * 10) + d
return reverse(a//10, rev)
return rev
b = input("Enter the Number")
x = reverse(int(b), 0)
print(x)

I'm not sure why you're doing it like that. Seems like the following is easier
def rev(a):
return int(str(a)[::-1])
Anyway, I believe you should use "//" instead of "/" for dividing without the rest in python 3?

How to reverse an int in python?

I'm creating a python script which prints out the whole song of '99 bottles of beer', but reversed. The only thing I cannot reverse is the numbers, being integers, not strings.
This is my full script,
def reverse(str):
return str[::-1]
def plural(word, b):
if b != 1:
return word + 's'
else:
return word
def line(b, ending):
print b or reverse('No more'), plural(reverse('bottle'), b), reverse(ending)
for i in range(99, 0, -1):
line(i, "of beer on the wall")
line(i, "of beer"
print reverse("Take one down, pass it around")
line(i-1, "of beer on the wall \n")
I understand my reverse function takes a string as an argument, however I do not know how to take in an integer, or , how to reverse the integer later on in the script.

Without converting the number to a string:
def reverse_number(n):
r = 0
while n > 0:
r *= 10
r += n % 10
n /= 10
return r
print(reverse_number(123))

You are approaching this in quite an odd way. You already have a reversing function, so why not make line just build the line the normal way around?
def line(bottles, ending):
return "{0} {1} {2}".format(bottles,
plural("bottle", bottles),
ending)
Which runs like:
>>> line(49, "of beer on the wall")
'49 bottles of beer on the wall'
Then pass the result to reverse:
>>> reverse(line(49, "of beer on the wall"))
'llaw eht no reeb fo selttob 94'
This makes it much easier to test each part of the code separately and see what's going on when you put it all together.

Something like this?
>>> x = 123
>>> str(x)
'123'
>>> str(x)[::-1]
'321'

best way is
x=12345
a=str(x)[::-1]\\ In this process i have create string of inverse of integer (a="54321")
a=int(a) \\ Here i have converted string a in integer
or
one line code is
a=int(str(x)[::-1]))

def reverse(x):
re = 0
negative = x < 0
MAX_BIG = 2 ** 31 -1
MIN_BIG = -2 ** 31
x = abs(x)
while x != 0:
a = int(x % 10)
re = re * 10 + a
x = int(x // 10)
reverse = -1 * re if negative else re
return 0 if reverse < MIN_BIG or reverse > MAX_BIG else reverse
this is for 32 - bit integer ( -2^31 ; 2^31-1 )

def reverse_number(n):
r = 0
while n > 0:
r = (r*10) + (n % 10)
print(r)
r *=10
n //= 10
return r
print(reverse_number(123))

You can cast an integer to string with str(i) and then use your reverse function.
The following line should do what you are looking for:
def line(b, ending):
print reverse(str(b)) or reverse('No more'), plural(reverse('bottle'),reverse(str(b))), reverse(ending)

Original number is taken in a
a = 123
We convert the int to string ,then reverse it and again convert in int and store reversed number in b
b = int("".join(reversed(str(a))))
Print the values of a and b
print(a,b)

def reverse_number(n):
r = 0
while n > 0:
r *= 10
r += n % 10
n /= 10
return r
print(reverse_number(123))
This code will not work if the number ends with zeros, example 100 and 1000 return 1

def reverse(num):
rev = 0
while(num != 0):
reminder = num % 10
rev = (rev * 10 ) + reminder
num = num // 10
print ("Reverse number is : " , rev )
num=input("enter number : ")
reverse(int(num))
#/ always results into float
#// division that results into whole number adjusted to the left in the number line

I think the following code should be good to reverse your positive integer.
You can use it as a function in your code.
n = input() # input is always taken as a string
rev = int(str(n)[::-1])
If you are having n as integer then you need to specify it as str here as shown. This is the quickest way to reverse a positive integer

import math
def Function(inputt):
a = 1
input2 = inputt
while(input2 > 9):
input2 = input2/10
a = a + 1
print("There are ", a, " numbers ")
N = 10
m = 1
print(" THe reverse numbers are: ")
for i in range(a):
l = (inputt%N)/m
print(math.floor(l), end = '')
N = N*10
m = m*10
print(" \n")
return 0
enter = int(input("Enter the number: "))
print(Function(enter))

More robust solution to handle negative numbers:
def reverse_integer(num):
sign = [1,-1][num < 0]
output = sign * int(str(abs(num))[::-1])

An easy and fast way to do it is as follows:
def reverse(x: int|str) -> int:
reverse_x = int(''.join([dgt for dgt in reversed(num:=str(x)) if dgt != '-']))
if '-' in num:
reverse_x = -reverse_x'
return reverse_x
First we create a list (using list comprehension) of the digits in reverse order. However, we must exclude the sign (otherwise the number would turn out like [3, 2, 1, -]). We now turn the list into a string using the ''.join() method.
Next we check if the original number had a negative sign in it. If it did, we would add a negative sign to reverse_x.

Easily you can write this class:
class reverse_number:
def __init__(self,rvs_num):
self.rvs_num = rvs_num
rvs_ed = int(str(rvs_num)[::-1])
print(rvs_ed)
You can use it by writing:
reverse_number(your number)

I have written it in a different way, but it works
def isPalindrome(x: int) -> bool:
if x<0:
return False
elif x<10:
return True
else:
rev=0
rem = x%10
quot = x//10
rev = rev*10+rem
while (quot>=10):
rem = quot%10
quot = quot//10
rev = rev*10+rem
rev = rev*10+quot
if rev==x:
return True
else:
return False
res=isPalindrome(1221)

leading number groups between two numbers

(Python) Given two numbers A and B. I need to find all nested "groups" of numbers:
range(2169800, 2171194)
leading numbers: 21698XX, 21699XX, 2170XX, 21710XX, 217110X, 217111X,
217112X, 217113X, 217114X, 217115X, 217116X, 217117X, 217118X, 2171190X,
2171191X, 2171192X, 2171193X, 2171194X
or like this:
range(1000, 1452)
leading numbers: 10XX, 11XX, 12XX, 13XX, 140X, 141X, 142X, 143X,
144X, 1450, 1451, 1452

Harder than it first looked - pretty sure this is solid and will handle most boundary conditions. :) (There are few!!)
def leading(a, b):
# generate digit pairs a=123, b=456 -> [(1, 4), (2, 5), (3, 6)]
zip_digits = zip(str(a), str(b))
zip_digits = map(lambda (x,y):(int(x), int(y)), zip_digits)
# this ignores problems where the last matching digits are 0 and 9
# leading (12000, 12999) is same as leading(12, 12)
while(zip_digits[-1] == (0,9)):
zip_digits.pop()
# start recursion
return compute_leading(zip_digits)
def compute_leading(zip_digits):
if(len(zip_digits) == 1): # 1 digit case is simple!! :)
(a,b) = zip_digits.pop()
return range(a, b+1)
#now we partition the problem
# given leading(123,456) we decompose this into 3 problems
# lows -> leading(123,129)
# middle -> leading(130,449) which we can recurse to leading(13,44)
# highs -> leading(450,456)
last_digits = zip_digits.pop()
low_prefix = reduce(lambda x, y : 10 * x + y, [tup[0] for tup in zip_digits]) * 10 # base for lows e.g. 120
high_prefix = reduce(lambda x, y : 10 * x + y, [tup[1] for tup in zip_digits]) * 10 # base for highs e.g. 450
lows = range(low_prefix + last_digits[0], low_prefix + 10)
highs = range(high_prefix + 0, high_prefix + last_digits[1] + 1)
#check for boundary cases where lows or highs have all ten digits
(a,b) = zip_digits.pop() # pop last digits of middle so they can be adjusted
if len(lows) == 10:
lows = []
else:
a = a + 1
if len(highs) == 10:
highs = []
else:
b = b - 1
zip_digits.append((a,b)) # push back last digits of middle after adjustments
return lows + compute_leading(zip_digits) + highs # and recurse - woohoo!!
print leading(199,411)
print leading(2169800, 2171194)
print leading(1000, 1452)

def foo(start, end):
index = 0
is_lower = False
while index < len(start):
if is_lower and start[index] == '0':
break
if not is_lower and start[index] < end[index]:
first_lower = index
is_lower = True
index += 1
return index-1, first_lower
start = '2169800'
end = '2171194'
result = []
while int(start) < int(end):
index, first_lower = foo(start, end)
range_end = index > first_lower and 10 or int(end[first_lower])
for x in range(int(start[index]), range_end):
result.append(start[:index] + str(x) + 'X'*(len(start)-index-1))
if range_end == 10:
start = str(int(start[:index])+1)+'0'+start[index+1:]
else:
start = start[:index] + str(range_end) + start[index+1:]
result.append(end)
print "Leading numbers:"
print result
I test the examples you've given, it is right. Hope this will help you

This should give you a good starting point :
def leading(start, end):
leading = []
hundreds = start // 100
while (end - hundreds * 100) > 100:
i = hundreds * 100
leading.append(range(i,i+100))
hundreds += 1
c = hundreds * 100
tens = 1
while (end - c - tens * 10) > 10:
i = c + tens * 10
leading.append(range(i, i + 10))
tens += 1
c += tens * 10
ones = 1
while (end - c - ones) > 0:
i = c + ones
leading.append(i)
ones += 1
leading.append(end)
return leading
Ok, the whole could be one loop-level deeper. But I thought it might be clearer this way. Hope, this helps you...
Update :
Now I see what you want. Furthermore, maria's code doesn't seem to be working for me. (Sorry...)
So please consider the following code :
def leading(start, end):
depth = 2
while 10 ** depth > end : depth -=1
leading = []
const = 0
coeff = start // 10 ** depth
while depth >= 0:
while (end - const - coeff * 10 ** depth) >= 10 ** depth:
leading.append(str(const / 10 ** depth + coeff) + "X" * depth)
coeff += 1
const += coeff * 10 ** depth
coeff = 0
depth -= 1
leading.append(end)
return leading
print leading(199,411)
print leading(2169800, 2171194)
print leading(1000, 1453)
print leading(1,12)
Now, let me try to explain the approach here.
The algorithm will try to find "end" starting from value "start" and check whether "end" is in the next 10^2 (which is 100 in this case). If it fails, it will make a leap of 10^2 until it succeeds. When it succeeds it will go one depth level lower. That is, it will make leaps one order of magnitude smaller. And loop that way until the depth is equal to zero (= leaps of 10^0 = 1). The algorithm stops when it reaches the "end" value.
You may also notice that I have the implemented the wrapping loop I mentioned so it is now possible to define the starting depth (or leap size) in a variable.
The first while loop makes sure the first leap does not overshoot the "end" value.
If you have any questions, just feel free to ask.