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9voltWolfXX
9voltWolfXX

Reputation: 143

"Cleaning up" basic Pig Latin translator in Python

As I am just a beginner, I made a small single-word Pig Latin translator in Python 3.5. I have my rough code that works, however I'd really like your opinions on how to make it more compact, pythonic, and "elegant" (i.e.-professional). Any help is appreciated, thank you!

#Converts a word into pig latin, needs to be cleaned up
def pig_latin(word):
    word = list(word)
    first_letter = word[0]
    del word[0]
    word.insert(len(word),first_letter)
    word.insert(len(word),'ay')
    print(''.join(word))

Upvotes: 2

Views: 153

Answers (1)

willeM_ Van Onsem
willeM_ Van Onsem

Reputation: 476709

You do not need to convert the string to a list, do some magic with it and convert it back: if you apply [1:] on a string, you get the string without the first character. So you can easily translate it into:

def pig_latin(word):
    print('%s%say'%(word[1:],word[0]))

or equivalently:

def pig_latin(word):
    print('{}{}ay'.format(word[1:],word[0]))

Here we use string formatting: so we replace '%s%say' in such way that the first %s is replaced with word[1:], and the second with word[0] followed by an 'ay'.

This generates:

>>> pig_latin('foobar')
oobarfay

Upvotes: 2

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