led_display

''' I tried this problem and solved it but could not get the numbers to print next to each other. 
this solution in this file right now is not completely written by me. '''
digits = { '0': '1111110',  	# 0
	   '1': '0110000',	# 1
	   '2': '1101101',	# 2
	   '3': '1111001',	# 3
	   '4': '0110011',	# 4
	   '5': '1011011',	# 5
	   '6': '1011111',	# 6
	   '7': '1110000',	# 7
	   '8': '1111111',	# 8
	   '9': '1111011',	# 9
	   }

def printNumber(num):
	global digits
	digs = str(num)
	lines = [ '' for l in range(5) ]
	for d in digs:
        # only display segmets for a num with more than 0 digits
		segs = [ [' ',' ',' '] for l in range(5) ]
        # the 1's in the pattern of the digit are the segments to be turned on
		ptrn = digits.get(d)
		if ptrn[0] == '1':
			segs[0][0] = segs[0][1] = segs[0][2] = '*'
		if ptrn[1] == '1':
			segs[0][2] = segs[1][2] = segs[2][2] = '*'
		if ptrn[2] == '1':
			segs[2][2] = segs[3][2] = segs[4][2] = '*'
		if ptrn[3] == '1':
			segs[4][0] = segs[4][1] = segs[4][2] = '*'
		if ptrn[4] == '1':
			segs[2][0] = segs[3][0] = segs[4][0] = '*'
		if ptrn[5] == '1':
			segs[0][0] = segs[1][0] = segs[2][0] = '*'
		if ptrn[6] == '1':
			segs[2][0] = segs[2][1] = segs[2][2] = '*'
		for l in range(5):
			#this line enables printing multiple digits next to each other
			#by joining the characters in the segment array into a string
            #The result is a horizonal line segment for multiple digit
			lines[l] += ''.join(segs[l]) + '  '
	for l in lines:
		print(l)

printNumber(int(input("Enter the number you wish to display: ")))