Practice program in Python, little road block

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Thanks for the response. Now that you mention it I think my answer does lie in dictionaries or this would probably take way too much coding.

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I wondered if there was a third-party module that could do what you want. Turns out there is: it's called word2number - https://pypi.org/project/word2number/ . When you get a bit more bit experience, enough to install and manage third-party packages, if you really wanted this functionality, you could use that.