Hopefully this function will save you the trip to oocalc/excel. Py3k code.
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Copy to clipboard1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | """Hopefully this function will save you the trip to oocalc/excel. Py3k code.
"""
def nth(n):
m = abs(n)
if m % 10 < 4 and m // 10 != 1:
return '{}{}'.format(n, ('th', 'st', 'nd', 'rd')[m % 10])
return '{}{}'.format(n, 'th')
def rangeth(*args):
"""rangeth([start,] stop[, skip]) -> list of places (rankings)
returns a list of strings as places in a list (1st, 2nd, etc)
>>> rangeth(4)
['0th', '1st', '2nd', '3rd']
"""
return list(map(nth, range(*args)))
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I had to go out of my way at work to kick up Excel, just to use their adjacent cell completion tool to build a list of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc rankings. Since I went through the trouble of writing this one-off function, I went ahead and posted it here.
Can be easily re-tooled for previous versions behind Python 3.0.
