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Python script to create a unique string corresponding to a given input number.
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import string | |
# number_letter_map = {0: 'A', 1: 'B', ... , 51: 'z'} | |
number_letter_map = dict(zip(range(52), string.letters)) | |
def get_unique_string(number): | |
""" | |
Take a number as input and return a unique string corresponding to that number. | |
""" | |
letter_list = [] | |
while(number > 0): | |
remainder = number % 52 | |
letter = number_letter_map[remainder] | |
letter_list.append(letter) | |
number = number / 52 | |
return ''.join(reversed(letter_list)) | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
numbers = range(500000, 600000) | |
for n in numbers: | |
print n, '\t', get_unique_string(n) |
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