Time Word

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Medium

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Solution

Time Word: Solution

Turn a string of 24h time into words.

You can trust that you’ll be given a valid string (it will always have a two-digit hour 00-23, and a two-digit minute 00-59). Hours 0-11 are am, and hours 12-23 are pm.

Handle noon and midnight specially:

>>> time_word("00:00")
'midnight'

>>> time_word("12:00")
'noon'

Otherwise, covert times to text:

>>> time_word("01:00")
"one o'clock am"

>>> time_word("06:01")
'six oh one am'

>>> time_word("06:10")
'six ten am'

>>> time_word("06:18")
'six eighteen am'

>>> time_word("06:30")
'six thirty am'

>>> time_word("10:34")
'ten thirty four am'

Don’t forget to handle early morning properly:

>>> time_word("00:12")
'twelve twelve am'

For times after noon, add ‘pm’

>>> time_word("12:09")
'twelve oh nine pm'

>>> time_word("23:23")
'eleven twenty three pm'

We’ve given you a file, timeword.py, with a function time_word:

def time_word(time):
    """Convert time to text."""

Implement this function.