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+from mlmorph import Generator
+
+onesStr = [
+  "പൂജ്യം",
+  "ഒന്ന്",
+  "രണ്ട്",
+  "മൂന്ന്",
+  "നാല്",
+  "അഞ്ച്",
+  "ആറ്",
+  "ഏഴ്",
+  "എട്ട്",
+  "ഒമ്പത്"
+]
+
+
+def clean(result) : 
+      result = result.replace("<ones><hundreds>", "<hundreds>")
+      result = result.replace("<ones><tens>", "<tens>")
+      #result = result.replace("ഒന്ന്<ones><hundreds>", "<hundreds>") # is it needed?
+      result = result.replace("ഒന്ന്<ones><thousands>", "<thousands>") if result.startswith("ഒന്ന്<ones><thousands>") else result #to handle 11000
+      return result
+
+def positionValues(value) :
+      result = ""
+      crores = int(value / 10000000) if (value >= 10000000) else 0
+      lakhs = int((value % 10000000) / 100000)
+      thousands = int((value % 100000) / 1000)
+      hundreds = int((value % 1000) / 100)
+      tens = int((value % 100) / 10)
+      ones = int((value % 10) / 1)
+      result = ((positionValues(crores) + "<crores>") if (crores > 0) else  "") + \
+        ((positionValues(lakhs) + "<lakhs>") if (lakhs > 0) else "") + \
+        ((positionValues(thousands) + "<thousands>") if (thousands > 0) else "") + \
+        ((positionValues(hundreds) + "<hundreds>") if (hundreds > 0) else "") + \
+        ((positionValues(tens) + "<tens>") if (tens > 0) else "") + \
+        ((onesStr[ones] + "<ones>") if (ones > 0) else "") + \
+        ((onesStr[ones] + "<zero>") if (value == 0) else "")
+      return clean(result)
+
+def spellOut(value) : 
+    return positionValues(value) + "<cardinal>" 
+
+def expand_numbers(value,weight=False) :
+   numtext = spellOut(value)
+   generator = Generator()
+   out  = generator.generate(numtext,weighted=weight)
+   return out
+
+
+
+        
+
+
+
+
+    
+
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__' :
+    value = 110
+    out = spellOut(value)
+    generator = Generator()
+    text  = generator.generate(out)
+    #out = expand_numbers_ml(value)
+
+
+
+