Roman Numerals (Python)

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vegaseat vegaseat is offline Offline Jan 26th, 2007, 3:14 am |
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Let Python do the work for you and figure out the roman numerals for a given integer. I have to ask you to keep the integer values somewhat reasonably low (from 1 to 4999), since roman numerals from 5000 on use characters with an overline and most PCs don't have those in the character set.
Last edited by vegaseat; Oct 17th, 2009 at 4:25 pm.
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  1. # convert an integer to a roman numeral
  2. # keep it reasonable since from 5000 on special characters are used
  3. # see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals
  4. # tested with Python24       vegaseat        25jan2007
  5.  
  6. def int2roman(number):
  7.     numerals = { 1 : "I", 4 : "IV", 5 : "V", 9 : "IX", 10 : "X", 40 : "XL", 
  8.         50 : "L", 90 : "XC", 100 : "C", 400 : "CD", 500 : "D", 900 : "CM", 1000 : "M" }
  9.     result = ""
  10.     for value, numeral in sorted(numerals.items(), reverse=True):
  11.         while number >= value:
  12.             result += numeral
  13.             number -= value
  14.     return result
  15.  
  16. print int2roman(input("Enter an integer (1 to 4999): "))
  17.  
  18. """
  19. Enter an integer (1 to 4999): 2007
  20. MMVII
  21. """
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pythonuser18 pythonuser18 is offline Offline | Oct 15th, 2009
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i'm just playing around with python and decided to try this code out but keep getting a syntax error pointing to the colon after the 1 in,
 
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Gribouillis Gribouillis is offline Offline | Oct 15th, 2009
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I just tested it with python 2.6 and it works. For python 3.1, I had to change the last statement to
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  1. print(int2roman(int(input("Enter an integer (1 to 4999): "))))
and it works.
 
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vegaseat vegaseat is offline Offline | Oct 15th, 2009
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@pythonuser18
you used () instead of {}
a dictionary container needs the curly braces.
 
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pythonuser18 pythonuser18 is offline Offline | Oct 16th, 2009
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def DecToRom (number) :
numerals={1: "I", 4: "IV", 5: "V", 9: "IX", 10: "X", 40: "XL", 50: "L", 90: "XC", 100: "C", 400: "CD", 500: "D", 900: "CM", 1000: "M"}
result=""
for value, numeral in sorted(numerals.items(), reverse=True):
while number >= value:
result += numeral
number -= value
return result
print DecToRom(raw_input(“Decimal number: “))

could someone tell me why this isn't working? It says Syntax Error: invalid syntax

I know the indents aren't formatted correctly on this post, but they are as they are suppose to be in python
Last edited by pythonuser18; Oct 16th, 2009 at 12:57 am.
 
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Gribouillis Gribouillis is offline Offline | Oct 16th, 2009
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@@pythonuser18 For reference, I got it working, with python 2.6 and this last line:
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  1. print DecToRom(int(raw_input("Decimal number: ")))
 
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woooee woooee is offline Offline | Oct 16th, 2009
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Roman to integer. Note that it will take something like XXIXV and convert it. If someone already has a routine to check for valid input, please post it. And I'm afraid we've just eliminated one standard homework question. Oh well, nothing lasts forever.
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  1. roman_to_decimal = { 'I': 1, 'V': 5, 'X': 10, 'L': 50, 'C': 100, \
  2.                      'D': 500, 'M': 1000 }
  3.  
  4. roman = raw_input("Enter the roman numeral to convert to arabic: ").upper()
  5.  
  6. converted = True
  7. arabic = 0
  8. for n in range(0, len(roman)-1):
  9.     this_char = roman[n]
  10.     next_char = roman[n+1]
  11.     if (this_char in roman_to_decimal) and \
  12.        (next_char in roman_to_decimal):
  13.  
  14.         this_number = roman_to_decimal[this_char]
  15.         next_number =  roman_to_decimal[next_char]
  16.         print "converting %s to %d....." % (this_char, this_number),
  17.         if this_number < next_number:
  18.             arabic -= this_number
  19.         else:
  20.             arabic += this_number
  21.         print "Total now =", arabic
  22.  
  23.     else:
  24.         print "\nthis chr (%s) or next chr (%s) is not a valid roman numeral" \
  25.               % (this_char, next_char)
  26.         converted = False
  27.         break
  28.  
  29. if converted:
  30.     ##  add last roman numeral
  31.     arabic += roman_to_decimal[roman[len(roman)-1]]
  32.  
  33.     print "\nThe roman numeral", roman, "is equal to",arabic
 
 

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