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Re: This could be an interesting error

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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]
>              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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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 17:02 -0400
  Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 17:07 -0400
  Re: This could be an interesting error Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-31 22:38 +0100
    Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 18:04 -0400
      Re: This could be an interesting error Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-31 23:26 +0100
    Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 18:42 -0400
      Re: This could be an interesting error Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-09-01 00:21 +0100
        Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 20:08 -0400
          Re: This could be an interesting error Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-09-01 01:56 +0100
            Re: This could be an interesting error Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-01 12:53 +1000
              Re: This could be an interesting error Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-09-01 07:34 +0100
          Re: This could be an interesting error Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-08-31 22:12 -0400
            Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 22:54 -0400
              Re: This could be an interesting error Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-31 21:55 -0700
                Re: This could be an interesting error Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-01 15:12 +1000
                Re: This could be an interesting error Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-31 23:53 -0700
  Re: This could be an interesting error MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-08-31 22:53 +0100
    Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 18:07 -0400
      Re: This could be an interesting error Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-01 12:12 +1000
        Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 22:13 -0400
        Re: This could be an interesting error Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-09-01 19:25 +1200
  Re: This could be an interesting error Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-08-31 16:10 -0600
    Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 18:31 -0400
    Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 20:04 -0400
      Re: This could be an interesting error MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-01 01:23 +0100
        Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 20:35 -0400
      Re: This could be an interesting error Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-08-31 22:15 -0600
      Re: This could be an interesting error Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-08-31 22:52 -0600

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