CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Derivates
Derivates

Reputation: 19

Output the vowels and consonants of a string (without imports or for/while loops)

The code I currently have requires me to input all the vowels or consonants, I don't think this is very efficient. As of now, I'm not allowed to use map or for in my code because I'm on chapter 2 of python (this covers lists, slicing..)

phrase = input("Phrase: ")

num_words = len(phrase.split(" "))

num_vowels = (
    phrase.count("a")
    + phrase.count("e")
    + phrase.count("i")
    + phrase.count("o")
    + phrase.count("u")
)

num_consonants = len(phrase.replace(" ", "")) - num_vowels

num_char = len(phrase)


print(f"words: {num_words}")
print(f"vowels : {num_vowels}")
print(f"consonants: {num_consonants}")
print(f"chars: {num_char}")

I'm wondering if there's an optimized way of accomplishing this on the level I currently am at programming.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 113

Answers (2)

Cooper
Cooper

Reputation: 68

I agree with all the comments - your code is fine. But I also hear you, you didn't get into python to manually write phrase.count() five times! python is supposed to be simple and concise even at a starting level.

A suggestion of an alternate way you could do the same thing would be list comprehension:

num_vowels = sum([phrase.count(each_vowel) for each_vowel in 'aeiou'])

Now I don't know if that is cheating (there is a "for" loop fairly prominent inside the list comprehension) - maybe one of the many, many more experienced programmers could comment. But if you are starting I really recommend you spend some time learning the tricks to list comprehension - it goes a long way making your code more concise.

Upvotes: 1

lemonlin
lemonlin

Reputation: 96

If you're allowed to use packages, re will do the trick:

import re

num_vowels = len(re.findall('[aeiouAEIOU]+', phrase))

If you're only allowed to use base python, then this is a barely cleaner (but functionally not different) way to print:

print("words: " + str(num_words),'\n' + "vowels: " + str(num_vowels), "\n" + "consonants: " + str(num_consonants), '\n' + "chars: " + str(num_char))

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 0

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