This could be an interesting error

[Seymore4Head]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 01:23:36 +0100, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com>
wrote:

>On 2014-09-01 01:04, Seymore4Head wrote:
>> On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:10:27 -0600, Michael Torrie <torriem at 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!
>>>
>> I am still kind of shooting in the dark.
>>
>> I wanted to try your example and it doesn't seem to work.
>> This is the latest version of changes I have made so the entire
>> program looks like this:
>>
>> newex='Hey buddy get away from my car'
>> newex = newex.split()
>> sentence=""
>>
>> print (newex)
>> wait = input ("          Wait")
>>
>> def pigword(test):
>>      for x in range(len(test)):
>>          if test[x] in "AEIOUYyaeiou":
>>              stem = test [x:]
>>              prefix = test [:x]
>>              pigword = stem + prefix + "ay"
>>              print ("Stem ",stem)
>>              print ("Prefix",prefix)
>>              print (pigword)
>>              break
>>      return (pigword)
>>
>> for x in range(len(newex)):
>>      sentence = sentence + pigword(newex[x])+ " "
>>      print (sentence)
>>      wait = input ("          Wait")
>>
>> Trying to use your example
>>>def pigword(word):
>>>    for x,letter in enumerate(word):
>>>        # x is index (position), letter is the value at that index
>>>        if letter in "AEIOUaeiou":
>> BTW I added "AEIOUYyaeiou" y as a vowel.
>>
>> I tried changing:
>> for x in range(len(test)):
>> to
>> for x in enumerate(test):
>>
>> That causes an error to popup in a different place.  I don't
>> understand why.
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "C:\Functions\piglatin.py", line 26, in <module>
>>      sentence = sentence + pigword(newex[x])+ " "
>>    File "C:\Functions\piglatin.py", line 15, in pigword
>>      if test[x] in "AEIOUYyaeiou":
>> TypeError: string indices must be integers
>>
>Try printing out x. That should give you a clue!
>
>> Since you included:
>>>for word in list_of_words:
>>>    sentence = sentence + pigword(word) + " "
>> I take it you anticipated a fault here.  I don't understand why.
>>
This might be a time saver later on, but I don't think I am ready for
changing to enumerate yet.

I did Google it.  :)