Write a program that repeatedly prompts for an English word to translate into Pi

Question

Write a program that repeatedly prompts for an English word to translate into Pig Latin, and prints the translated word. If the user enters a period, halt the program.
(a) If a word begins with a vowel, append "yay" to the end of the word.
(b) If a word begins with a consonant, remove all consonants from the beginning up to the first vowel and append them to the end of the word. Finally, append "ay" to the end of the word.

i.e. dog > ogday
scratch > atchscray
is > isyay
apple > appleyay

hints: slicing is your friend: it can pick off the first character for checking, and you can slice off pieces and concatenate to yield the new word
making a string of vowels allows use of the "in" operator: vowels = 'aeiou'

This problem is head and shoulders above my current novice Python programming skills. Thanks.

Explanation / Answer

vowels = "aeiou" while True: resp = raw_input("Enter a word: ") if (resp == '.'): print "I'm quitting, bye." break else: for x in range(0, len(vowels)): if(resp[0] == vowels[x]): print (resp + " > " + (resp + "yay")) break again = True n = 0; while (again): for i in range(0, len(vowels)): if (resp[n] == vowels[i]): again = False; break n += 1 con = "" for j in range(0, n-1): con += resp[j] print resp[n-1:] + con + "ay" Something I throw together, tested on your words and results were the same.

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