Converting Roman Numerals to integers in python

Question

This is now my current code after what user2486 said.

def romanMap():
    map=((\"M\",  1000),(\"CM\", 900),(\"D\",  500),(\"CD\", 400),(\"C\",  100),(\"XC\"         


        

Answer 1

There is a very detailed description of the development of the Roman numeral converters in the Dive Into Python 3 by Mark Pilgrim. See the 5.3. Case Study: Roman Numerals that introduces the problem and details.

But that is not all. See the Chapter 9. Unit Testing where the analysis and the implementation of Roman numeral converters continues, including interesting optimization and exception throwing -- the (unit) test driven development.

It is directly related to the enginefree's reference to the code in the first comment below the question (the code was written by Mark Pilgrim).