On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:38:12 +0100, Mark Lawrence
<breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>On 31/08/2014 22:02, Seymore4Head wrote:
>> import math
>> import random
>> import sys
>>
>> ex='Hey buddy get away from the car'
>> newex = ex.split()
>> sentence=""
>>
>> print (newex)
>> wait = input (" Wait")
>>
>> def pigword(test):
>> for x in range(len(test)):
>
>Please read up on how to use for loops as the above is usually a code smell.
>
>> if test[x] in "AEIOUaeiou":
>> stem = test [x:]
>> prefix = test [:x]
Unnecessary brackets?
I tried deleting the brackets and that doesn't seem to work. I tried
changing the brackets to parenthesizes and that didn't work. Although
I would prefer brackets to parenthesizes as you don't need shift to
type them.
>> pigword = stem + prefix + "ay"
>> print ("Stem ",stem)
>> print ("Prefix",prefix)
>> print (pigword)
>> break
>> return (pigword)
>
>This is Python so please get rid of those unnecessary brackets. Having
>done that assume that you have an empty test so your loop never gets
>entered, the local pigword never gets assigned before the return hence
>your UnboundLocalError.
>
>>
>> for x in range(len(newex)):
>
>Ditto.
>
>> sentence = sentence + pigword(newex[x])+ " "
>> print (sentence)
>> wait = input (" Wait")
>>
>> The program seems to work and it does work with everything I have
>> tried so far. The one exception is if you change "the" to "my" (in
>> the first line) the program crashes.
>>
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "C:\Documents and
>> Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Functions\test.py", line 25, in
>> <module>
>> sentence = sentence + pigword(newex[x])+ " "
>> File "C:\Documents and
>> Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Functions\test.py", line 22, in pigword
>> return (pigword)
>> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'pigword' referenced before
>> assignment
>>>>>
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