Why is this function not returning a pyg-latin value?

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#Problem: Move the first letter of each word to the end of it, then add #"ay" to the end of the word. Leave punctuation marks untouched.

#Example: "The train is fast !" --> "heTay raintay siay astfay !"

def pig_it(text):
    import string
    words = text.split()
    for word in words:
        first_letter = word[0]
        word += first_letter
        word = word[1:]
        if word not in string.punctuation:
            word += ("ay")
    new_words = ((" ").join(words))
    return(new_words)


pyg_latin = pig_it("The train is fast !")
print(pyg_latin)

The output returns "The train is fast !" when it should return the pyg latin value.

What I have tried:

I tried debugging and I got some results. during the for loop, it looks like each word (element) gets changed to its respective pyg-latin value correctly, but after the for loop, the words list gets changed back to its original value.

Posted 8-Jul-23 12:49pm

Naveen Krishna1

Updated 8-Jul-23 13:14pm

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Reverend Jim · Accepted Answer · 2023-07-08T13:14:00

Solution 1

You are modifying word but not saving the changes. Try

Python

import string

def pig_it(text):
    pig = []
    for word in text.split():
        if word not in string.punctuation:
            pig.append(word[1:] + word[0] + 'ay')

    return ' '.join(pig)


pyg_latin = pig_it("The train is fast !")
print(pyg_latin)

Posted 8-Jul-23 13:14pm

Reverend Jim

Updated 9-Jul-23 2:54am

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Naveen Krishna1 8-Jul-23 19:30pm

Thanks dude!