Another Python problem

[Jerahmy]

I cannot figure out how the code needs to go. Can anyone help? I am making a pig latin translator.

 

Instructions:

 

Set new_word equal to the slice from the 1st index all the way to the end of new_word.

Use[1:len(new_word)] to do this.

 

pyg = 'ay'
original = raw_input('Enter a word:')
word = original.lower()
first = word[0]
new_word = word + first + pyg
if len(original) > 0 and original.isalpha():
    print original
else:
    print 'empty'

[mcraftax]

Codecademy

[Enderman]

can you tell me what you want to go in and what you want to be output by the program?

[Jerahmy]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

can you tell me what you want to go in and what you want to be output by the program?

The output needs to be harliecay. If it helps, im on Code-academy. 

[Enderman]

12 minutes ago, Jerahmy said:

The output needs to be harliecay. If it helps, im on Code-academy. 

but what is the input?

 

this might be similar to what you are trying to do:

well if you have a word = hello

then you can use [0:len(word)-2] to get everything from first to second last letter

 

so word[0:len(word)-2] returns "hell"

because h=0 e=1 l=2 l=3 o=4

length is 5

so if you go from 0 to 3 then you get hello without the last letter

 

[Jerahmy]

22 minutes ago, Enderman said:

can you tell me what you want to go in and what you want to be output by the program?

Sorry, the input is "Charlie"

[Enderman]

Just now, Jerahmy said:

Sorry, the input is "Charlie"

oh i see

well you first want the stuff from 1 to end

then you want to add the letter at 0

then you want to add ay

 

so you can use word[A:B] to get what section of the word you want

if you want to start with h (position 1) then you make A 1

 

then you want to end with the last letter, which is len(word)-1

the -1 is because len(word) = 7 but the last letter is position 6

 

so that means to get "harlie" you need to do word[1:len(word)-1]

 

after that you can just add the first letter, which is word[0], and then add "ay"

[Jerahmy]

20 minutes ago, Enderman said:

oh i see

well you first want the stuff from 1 to end

then you want to add the letter at 0

then you want to add ay

 

so you can use word[A:B] to get what section of the word you want

if you want to start with h (position 1) then you make A 1

 

then you want to end with the last letter, which is len(word)-1

the -1 is because len(word) = 7 but the last letter is position 6

 

so that means to get "harlie" you need to do word[1:len(word)-1]

 

after that you can just add the first letter, which is word[0], and then add "ay"

Im not going to lie. I have no idea what you just said.

[Enderman]

1 hour ago, Jerahmy said:

Im not going to lie. I have no idea what you just said.

charlie is a string

 

c  h  a   r   l   i  e

0  1  2  3  4  5  6

 

you want letters 1 to 6, then 0, then "ay"

 

since you want this to work for any length word, instead of 6 use     len(word)-1

the [A:B] function takes all the letters from A to B

in this case you want all the letters from 1 to      len(word)-1       so you do        word[   1  :  len(word)-1   ]

 

thats the first part

then you want to add the first letter of the word, so you go        +word[0]

 

then you want to add "ay" so you go     +"ay"

 

 

word[   1  :  len(word)-1   ]    +    word[0]     +      "ay"

prints out            harlecay

[SSL]

@Enderman @Jerahmy

 

You two need to read about slicing in Python.

[Enderman]

1 hour ago, SSL said:

@Enderman @Jerahmy

 

You two need to read about slicing in Python.

I already know how, I was teaching him how to do it

What's the problem

[SSL]

1 hour ago, Enderman said:

I already know how, I was teaching him how to do it

What's the problem

 

Everything should be as simple as possible but no simpler. Your example doesn't take account the word[1:] notation, which is functionally identical to word[a:len(word)-1].

[Enderman]

7 minutes ago, SSL said:

 

Everything should be as simple as possible but no simpler. Your example doesn't take account the word[1:] notation, which is functionally identical to word[a:len(word)-1].

Try reading the instructions next time.

I wonder how many marks you've lost on exams for not bothering to read the instructions...

[SSL]

7 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Try reading the instructions next time.

I wonder how many marks you've lost on exams for not bothering to read the instructions...

 

I don't care about instructions if they're wrong. In the real world, programs are designed to interfaces and performance constraints; specifics of implementation are not important and should be ignored if they are stupid.

 

Codeacademy is shit; I wouldn't be surprised if the people who wrote this "tutorial" know nothing about Python.

[Enderman]

18 minutes ago, SSL said:

 

I don't care about instructions if they're wrong. In the real world, programs are designed to interfaces and performance constraints; specifics of implementation are not important and should be ignored if they are stupid.

 

Codeacademy is shit; I wouldn't be surprised if the people who wrote this "tutorial" know nothing about Python.

I think that's a personal opinion. Thousands of people learnt to program from there just fine...

 

If you use that kind of "this is stupid, im not going to follow the instructions" logic on your tests you must have failed university or something

[Jerahmy]

27 minutes ago, SSL said:

 

I don't care about instructions if they're wrong. In the real world, programs are designed to interfaces and performance constraints; specifics of implementation are not important and should be ignored if they are stupid.

 

Codeacademy is shit; I wouldn't be surprised if the people who wrote this "tutorial" know nothing about Python.

 

7 minutes ago, Enderman said:

I think that's a personal opinion. Thousands of people learnt to program from there just fine...

 

If you use that kind of "this is stupid, im not going to follow the instructions" logic on your tests you must have failed university or something

 

37 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Try reading the instructions next time.

I wonder how many marks you've lost on exams for not bothering to read the instructions...

 

45 minutes ago, SSL said:

 

Everything should be as simple as possible but no simpler. Your example doesn't take account the word[1:] notation, which is functionally identical to word[a:len(word)-1].

Calm down guys. No need to get into an argument over this. Everyone has their own opinion.

[SSL]

9 minutes ago, Enderman said:

I think that's a personal opinion. Thousands of people learnt to program from there just fine...

 

If you use that kind of "this is stupid, im not going to follow the instructions" logic on your tests you must have failed university or something

 

If you want to believe either of those things, I can't stop you. Meanwhile I'll sit here having a degree and a job as a web developer, dealing with garbage code written by people who learned on codeacademy.