I am doing a Pig Latin code in which the following words are supposed to return the following responses:
"computer" == "omputercay" "think" == "inkthay" "algorithm" == "algorithmway" "office" == "officeway" "Computer" == "Omputercay" "Science!" == "Iencescay!"
However, for the last word, my code does not push the ‘!’ to the end of the string. What is the code that will make this happen?
All of them return the correct word apart from the last which returns “Ience!Scay!”
def pigLatin(word):
vowel = ("a","e","i","o","u")
first_letter = word[0]
if first_letter in vowel:
return word +'way'
else:
l = len(word)
i = 0
while i < l:
i = i + 1
if word[i] in vowel:
x = i
new_word = word[i:] + word[:i] + "ay"
if word[0].isupper():
new_word = new_word.title()
return new_word
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Answer
For simplicity, how about you check if the word contains an exlamation point ! at the end and if it does just remove it and when you are done add it back. So instead of returning just check place ! at the end (if you discovered it does at the beggining).
def pigLatin(word):
vowel = ("a","e","i","o","u")
first_letter = word[0]
if first_letter in vowel:
return word +'way'
else:
hasExlamation = False
if word[-1] == '!':
word = word[:-1] # removes last letter
hasExlamation = True
l = len(word)
i = 0
while i < l:
i = i + 1
if word[i] in vowel:
x = i
new_word = word[i:] + word[:i] + "ay"
if word[0].isupper():
new_word = new_word.title()
break # do not return just break out of the `while` loop
if hasExlamation:
new_word += "!" # same as new_word = new_word + "!"
return new_word
That way it does not treat ! as a normal letter and the output is Iencescay!. You can of course do this with any other character similarly
specialCharacters = ["!"] # define this outside the function
def pigLatin():
# all of the code above
if word in specialCharacters:
hasSpecialCharacter = True
# then you can continue the same way