Is there a program that will only return the constants in a word python

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I would like to write a program that asks the user for a word and only returns the constants. But I am stuck with this program, I would expect this program to do what I have mentioned above, but all it does is returns the word row by row.

original = input('Enter a word:')
word = original.lower()
first = word[0]
second = word[1]
third = word[2]
fourth = word[3]
fifth=word[4]


if first == "a" or "e" or "i" or "u":
    print (first)
else:
    print ("")
if second == "a" or "e" or "i" or "u":
    print (second)
else:
    print ("")
if third == "a" or "e" or "i" or "u":
    print (third)
else:
    print ("")
if fourth == "a" or "e" or "i" or "u":
    print (fourth)
else:
    print ("")
if fifth == "a" or "e" or "i" or "u":
    print (fifth)
else:
    print ("")

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15112125/how-do-i-test-one-variable-against-multiple-values. Also note that you could significantly simplify this by looping over the input (`for char in word:`) and you've spelled *"fifth"* incorrectly. — jonrsharpe, Jan 10 '16 at 13:05
Those are *"consonants"* (as opposed to *"vowels"*), and that is the **exact opposite** of what your code is even *attempting* to do. — jonrsharpe, Jan 10 '16 at 13:13
Your right so I should change where i put a e i to b c d f etc — Chaim Stanton, Jan 10 '16 at 13:21

Maxime Chéramy · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-10T13:24:06.587

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Strip all the vowels from a word and print it:

original = input('Enter a word:')
print("".join(x for x in original if x.lower() not in "aeiou"))

edited Jan 10 '16 at 13:24

answered Jan 10 '16 at 13:18

Maxime Chéramy

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 11 '16 at 03:38

The precedence is wrong. "or" has higher precedence then "==" - see https://docs.python.org/2/reference/expressions.html#operator-precedence

So the line:

if first == "a" or "e" or "i" or "u":

Is the same as:

if (first == "a") or ("e") or ("i") or ("u"):

Which I suspect isn't what you wanted. The following might work better:

if first in "aeiu":

However also note this is case sensitive...

Is there a program that will only return the constants in a word python

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