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add y to vowels
hkershaw-brown Dec 15, 2023
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return count of consontants rather than printing the consonant.
hkershaw-brown Dec 15, 2023
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8 changes: 5 additions & 3 deletions python/exercise1/vowel_counter.py
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def num_vowels(text):
"""Return the number of vowels in string."""
vowels = "aeiou"
vowels = "aeiouy"
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y is both a consonant and value, so the definition of vowel should be clarified

num = 0
for v in vowels:
num += text.lower().count(v)
return num

def num_consonants(text):
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Docstrings could be added to describe what the function is doing

vowels = "aeiou"
vowels = "aeiouy"
num = 0
for letter in text:
if letter not in vowels:
print("consonant", letter)
num += text.lower().count(letter)
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What about numbers? I don't think numbers should be counted as consonants, but they were counted when I tested the script

return num

text = str(input("Enter a sentence: "))

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