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from __future__ import division

debi_dict = {}
debi_blocks = []
debi_dict.update({"blocks":debi_blocks})
def print_board(board):
    for row in board:
        print " ".join(row)
def debi_a(exp):
    empty_list = []
    for x in range(0,5):
        if x%2 == 0:
            empty_list.append([" ",'.'," ",'.'," ", ".", " "])
        else:
            empty_list.append([" ","|"," ","|"," ","|"," "])
    if exp > 7:
        pos = (exp-7)/12
        b_pos = pos - int(pos)
        if b_pos != 0:
            a_num = 2+int(pos)
            if debi_dict.get(a_num) == debi_dict.get("Null"):
                exec("list_%d = empty_list") %(a_num)
                exec("debi_dict.update({a_num:list_%d})")%(a_num)
                debi_blocks.append(a_num) 
        else:
            a_num = 1+int(pos)
            b_pos = 1
            if debi_dict.get(a_num) == debi_dict.get("Null"):
                exec("list_%d = empty_list") %(a_num)
                exec("debi_dict.update({a_num:list_%d})")%(a_num)
                debi_blocks.append(a_num) 
        b_pos = int(b_pos*1000)
        if b_pos == int(1000/12):
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[0][0] = "-"
        elif b_pos == int(2000/12):
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[0][2] = "-"
        elif b_pos == int(3000/12):
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[0][4] = "-"
        elif b_pos == int(4000/12):
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[0][6] = "-"
        elif b_pos == int(5000/12):
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[2][0] = "-"
        elif b_pos == int(6000/12):
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[2][2] = "-"
        elif b_pos == int(7000/12):
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[2][4] = "-"
        elif b_pos == int(8000/12):
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[2][6] = "-"
        elif b_pos == int(9000/12):
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[4][0] = "-"
        elif b_pos == int(10000/12):
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[4][2] = "-"
        elif b_pos == int(11000/12):
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[4][4] = "-"
        elif b_pos == 1000:
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[4][6] = "-"
    else:
        a_num = 1
        if debi_dict.get(a_num) == debi_dict.get("Null"):
            exec("list_%d = empty_list") %(a_num)
            exec("debi_dict.update({a_num:list_%d})")%(a_num)
            debi_blocks.append(a_num) 
        if exp == 7:
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[4][6] = "-"
        elif exp == 6:
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[4][4] = "-"
        elif exp == 5:
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[4][2] = "-"
        elif exp == 4:
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[4][0] = "-"
        elif exp == 3:
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[2][6] = "-"
        elif exp == 2:
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[2][4] = "-"
        elif exp == 1:
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[2][2] = "-"
        elif exp == 0:
            debi_dict.get(a_num)[2][0] = "-"
def debi_b(four_num):
    a_num = 1
    empty_list = []
    for x in range(0,5):
        if x%2 == 0:
            empty_list.append([" ",'.'," ",'.'," ", ".", " "])
        else:
            empty_list.append([" ","|"," ","|"," ","|"," "])
    if debi_dict.get(a_num) == debi_dict.get("Null"):
        exec("list_%d = empty_list") %(a_num)
        exec("debi_dict.update({a_num:list_%d})")%(a_num)
        debi_blocks.append(a_num) 
    if four_num == 4:
        debi_dict.get(a_num)[0][6] = "-"
    elif four_num == 3:
        debi_dict.get(a_num)[0][4] = "-"
    elif four_num == 2:
        debi_dict.get(a_num)[0][2] = "-"
    elif four_num == 1:
        debi_dict.get(a_num)[0][0] = "-"
def convert_to_debi(num):
    cond1 = True
    while cond1:
        q = len(str(num)) - 1
        cond2 = True
        if q < 30 and q > 0:
            if q % 3 == 0:
                exp = int(((q/3)-1)*10+9)
            elif (q-2) % 3 == 0:
                exp = int(((q-2)/3)*10+6)
            elif (q-1) % 3 == 0:
                exp = int(((q-1)/3)*10+3)
        elif q == 0:
            cond1 = False
            cond2 = False
        while cond2:
            expd = 10*2**exp
            if num >= expd:
                num -= expd
                debi_a(exp)
            elif num < expd:
                exp -= 1
                expd = 10*2**exp
            if num < 10:
                cond1 = False
                cond2 = False
            elif len(str(int(expd))) - len(str(int(num))) > 1:
                cond2 = False
    if num != 0:
        cond1 = True
        i = 4
        while cond1:
            if num >= i:
                num -= i
                debi_b(i)
                i -= 1
            else:
                i -= 1
            if num == 0:
                cond1 = False
Number = raw_input("What is your number?")
convert_to_debi(int(Number))
debi_dict['blocks'] = sorted(debi_blocks)
for x in debi_dict.get("blocks"):
    print
    print x
    print_board(debi_dict.get(x))

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