Python help thread?

You don't really need an index for a string in python unless you're going to be doing string splitting:

Code:

x='spam'
for eachLetter in x:
  print(eachLetter)

Code:

s
p
a
m

Code:

from string import *

word = raw_input("Enter the word you would like to have translated: ")
if word[0].lower == "a" or word[0].lower == "e" or word[0].lower == "i" or word[0].lower == "o" or word[0].lower == "u":
    word = word + "-" + "ay"
    print word
elif word[0].lower == "y":
    if word[1] != "a" and word[1] != "e" and word[1] != "i" and word[1] != "o" and word[1] != "u":
        word = word + "-" + "ay"
        print word
    elif word[1] == "a" or word[1] == "e" or word[1] == "i" or word[1] == "o" or word[1] == "u":
        word = word[1:] + "-" + word[0] + "ay"
        print word
elif word[0].lower != "a" or word[0].lower != "e" or word[0].lower != "i" or word[0].lower != "o" or word[0].lower != "u":
        word = word[0:] + "-" + word[0] + "ay"
        print word

Much better:

Code:

def IsVowel(letter):
  return letter in 'aeiouAEIOU'

word = raw_input("Enter the word you would like to have translated: ")
if IsVowel(word[0]):
  word += '-ay'
elif word[0] in 'yY':
  if IsVowel(word[1]): #Always try to assert POSITIVES in code. This makes it easier to debug later.
   word = word[1:] + "-" + word[0] + "ay"
  else:
   word += '-ay'
else:
  word += '-' + word[0] + 'ay'

print(word)

Code:

>>>
Enter the word you would like to have translated: Sunday
Sunday-Say
>>>
Enter the word you would like to have translated: Forget
Forget-Fay
>>>
Enter the word you would like to have translated: Yesterday
esterday-Yay
>>>

Also, make sure you have the parenthesis in there.

word[0].lower()

Otherwise you're going to receive the memory address for the method.

Code:

>>> word = 'X'
>>> word[0].lower
<built-in method lower of str object at 0x01DA7460>
>>> word[0].lower()
x

Lastly, you don't need to import string to get access to the lower method. That's a built-in.