🔒 Help with checking for vowels at end of object in list

[remote schooner]

#initializing friends list
friends = ['Alice', 'Bob', 'Charlie', 'Debbie']

#converting objects in list to all upppercase
uppercase_friends = [friend.upper() for friend in friends]

#checking for whether last letter in each object in list ends in a vowel, if so, print statement
for friend in uppercase_friends:
    if friend[-1] == "e":
        print ("\'" +friend + " IS AWESOME!\'")

This prints out nothing, i tried different ways to word this and it either prints everything for times and doesnt check for a vowel or its nothing. Can i get help with posing this in a way that checks for last character of object in list for a vowel?

[shadow lake]

@remote schooner

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[clever bay]

You're uppercasing all the strings, but then checking if it's equal to 'e'

you'd need to compare to 'E'

strings are case sensitive

[remote schooner]

Yes that works, should I add the rest of the vowels separated by <or>

or do I need to write elif statements for each vowel?

[clever bay]

you can use the in operator to do this easily

if friend[-1] in 'AEIOU':

this checks if the letter exists as a substring inside AEIOU

which is a cheeky way of checking for all the vowels at once

[remote schooner]

conversely, i would put <not in> then correct

[clever bay]

for checking if it's isn't a vowel?

[remote schooner]

yes

i just tried it and it worked, ive been stuck on this for 3 hours!!

thank you so much

[clever bay]

you can if that was the only think you wanted to check, but since you're already checking if it is a vowel, you might as well use else

it's either a vowel, or it isn't

you don't need to check both conditions explicitly

[remote schooner]

I see, but I have to also convert those objects in the list to lower case so I thought it would not work

[clever bay]

why convert them to upper case if you then have to convert to lower case?

[remote schooner]

the question asks to conver to uppercase for thos ending in vowel and conver to lower case for those not

[clever bay]

I wouldn't convert the whole list to upper in the start then

just convert to what is required within each condition

friends = ['Alice', 'Bob', 'Charlie', 'Debbie']

for friend in friends:
    ...

[lethal python]

You can create a new list
And then append that list considering your conditions

[clever bay]

if you want to reliably make sure the last letter is the correct case, you can apply upper or lower during the condition

[remote schooner]

processing

[clever bay]

friends = ['Alice', 'Bob', 'Charlie', 'Debbie']

for friend in friends:
    if friend[-1].upper() == "E":

see how you can apply .upper() directly to friend[-1]?

[remote schooner]

i didnt know I could do that, I have to keep going back to notes and so I will try this to conver to during the conditions, but in this way I would have to write elif for each letter, correct?

[clever bay]

nope

you can still use in

[remote schooner]

or friend in friends:
    if friend[-1].upper() == "E":
    elif friend[-1].upper() == "A":
#so on...

oh i see i can use in "AEIOU"

[clever bay]

for friend in friends:
    if friend[-1].upper() in "AEIOU":

yup, exactly

[remote schooner]

omg I will try this out, thank you so much!

[lethal python]

You can also do

in 'aeiouAEIOU'

to cover both lower and upper case

[clever bay]

that's not necessary though if you're doing .upper()

[remote schooner]

I see way shorter if can put it all together, working on it rn

#initializing friends list
friends = ['Alice', 'Bob', 'Charlie', 'Debbie']

#converting objects in list to all upppercase
uppercase_friends = [friend.upper() for friend in friends]

#checking for whether last letter in each object in list ends in a vowel, if so, print statement
for friend in friends:
    if friend[-1].upper() in "AEIOUaeiou":
        print ("\'" +friend + " IS AWESOME!\'")
    else:
        print ("\'" +friend.lower() + " is ok...\'")

IT WORKED🥹

why did python react with trash?

did i do something wrong?

[clever bay]

No, if you click that emoji, it will remove the embedded message

[shadow lake]

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