On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:10:27 -0600, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 08/31/2014 03:02 PM, Seymore4Head wrote: >> def pigword(test): >> for x in range(len(test)): >> if test[x] in "AEIOUaeiou": >> stem = test [x:] >> prefix = test [:x] >> pigword = stem + prefix + "ay" >> print ("Stem ",stem) >> print ("Prefix",prefix) >> print (pigword) >> break >> return (pigword) > >So, what do you think will happen if the word contains no vowels? Where >is pigword defined? > >> for x in range(len(newex)): >> sentence = sentence + pigword(newex[x])+ " " >> print (sentence) >> wait = input (" Wait") > >You don't need to iterate over range(len(blah)). The standard idiom >when you need index as well as the item itself is to iterate over >enumerate(). Or if you don't need the index, just iterate directly. >You can iterate directly over the list, or the letters in the word, >optionally getting an index. It's much cleaner and less error prone. >Consider something like: > >def pigword(word): > for x,letter in enumerate(word): > # x is index (position), letter is the value at that index > if letter in "AEIOUaeiou": > ... > >for word in list_of_words: > sentence = sentence + pigword(word) + " " > ... > >That doesn't solve your little logic problem, though I think you can >figure that part out easily! > Thanks I will give that a try. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list