Clean up user-entered phone numbers so that they can be sent SMS messages.
The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering system used by many countries in North America like the United States, Canada or Bermuda. All NANP-countries share the same international country code: 1
.
NANP numbers are ten-digit numbers consisting of a three-digit Numbering Plan Area code, commonly known as area code, followed by a seven-digit local number. The first three digits of the local number represent the exchange code, followed by the unique four-digit number which is the subscriber number.
The format is usually represented as
(NXX)-NXX-XXXX
where N
is any digit from 2 through 9 and X
is any digit from 0 through 9.
Your task is to clean up differently formatted telephone numbers by removing punctuation and the country code (1) if present.
For example, the inputs
+1 (613)-995-0253
613-995-0253
1 613 995 0253
613.995.0253
should all produce the output
6139950253
Note: As this exercise only deals with telephone numbers used in NANP-countries, only 1 is considered a valid country code.
Sometimes it is necessary to raise an exception. When you do this, you should include a meaningful error message to indicate what the source of the error is. This makes your code more readable and helps significantly with debugging. Not every exercise will require you to raise an exception, but for those that do, the tests will only pass if you include a message.
To raise a message with an exception, just write it as an argument to the exception type. For example, instead of
raise Exception
, you should write:
raise Exception("Meaningful message indicating the source of the error")
To run the tests, run pytest phone_number_test.py
Alternatively, you can tell Python to run the pytest module:
python -m pytest phone_number_test.py
-v
: enable verbose output-x
: stop running tests on first failure--ff
: run failures from previous test before running other test cases
For other options, see python -m pytest -h
Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the $EXERCISM_WORKSPACE/python/phone-number
directory.
You can find your Exercism workspace by running exercism debug
and looking for the line that starts with Workspace
.
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