Vowel Shifter

Hello all!

This week we have another practice problem for the Bloomsburg Competition coming up.  This problem is a vowel shifter and the description goes as follows:

Write a program that prompts the user for a sentence and modifies it by shifting each vowel like this:
• a→ e
• e→ i
• i→ o
• o→ u
• u→ a
In other words, each “a” in the original sentence becomes an “e”, each “e” in the original sentence becomes an “i”, and so on, and similarly for capital letters.

We’ll start this program off by creating two lists for each of our vowel sets. These will be called vowelsupper and vowelslower.

vowels = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u", "a"]
vowelsupper = ["A", "E", "I", "O", "U", "A"]

Next we need to grab our input from the user using phrase = str(raw_input("Enter a sentence.\n")) (Sidenote: The \n at the end of the sentence is an escape operator that just starts a new line.).  Next we need to create a way to iterate through our users input to find and replace vowels with our new shifted vowels.  We do this using a for loop.  A for loop is just a loop that repeats a set number of times and often is used to create a changing variable for the program. Inside this loop we want to use a conditional statement to check if each letter in the phrase is a vowel, and if it is a vowel we want to check if it is upper or lower case. After doing this we will shift the vowel and add the new vowel to our shifted phrase. Then we just repeat this process until we have iterated through the entire original string.

for i in range(len(phrase)):
    if phrase[i] in vowelslower or phrase[i] in vowelsupper:
        if phrase[i].islower():
            shift += vowelslower[vowelslower.index(phrase[i])+1]
        else:
            shift += vowelsupper[vowelsupper.index(phrase[i])+1]
    else:
        shift += phrase[i]

Now we have all the main components needed to create our program.  After combining them all together our final code will look like this:

vowelslower = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u", "a"]
vowelsupper = ["A", "E", "I", "O", "U", "A"]
shift = ""
phrase = str(raw_input("Enter a sentence.\n"))
for i in range(len(phrase)):
    if phrase[i] in vowelslower or phrase[i] in vowelsupper:
        if phrase[i].islower():
            shift += vowelslower[vowelslower.index(phrase[i])+1]
        else:
            shift += vowelsupper[vowelsupper.index(phrase[i])+1]
    else:
        shift += phrase[i]
print(shift)

And now we have a working solution for Problem #2!  This solution is posted on my GitHub as well.

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day!
~ Corbin