Pig latin

pig it

def pig_it(text):
    print(text)
def startsvowel(wordlist):
    latin_list=[]
    for str in wordlist:
        if str[0] == "a" or str [0] =="A":
      latin_list.append(str + "ay")
        elif str[0] == "e" or str[0] == "E":
             latin_list.append(str+ "ay")
        elif str[0] == "str[0] =="I":
            latin_list.append(str+ "ay")
        elif str[0] == "o" or str[0] =="O":
            latin_list.append(str+ "ay")
       str[0] == "u" or str[0] == "U":
            latin_list.append(str+ "ay")
        else:
            latin_list.append(str[1:] + str[0] + "ay")
   latin_list

def splitsentence(str):
    return str.split()

def combinewords(latinlist):
    joined = str(" ".join(latinlist))
    return (joined)
        

pig_it(combinewords(startsvowel(splitsentence("To sit in solemn silence"))))

@Camsbury

Ive got to figure out how to move punctuation. Im also getting a weird situation where tests arent passing as pig latin just as the original string. Any ideas?

Codewars.com/kata/simple-pig-latin/train/python

lol your pig_it function is just print.

Just because you write pig_it(combinewords(startsvowel(splitsentence(... doesn't mean that is what the tests look at.

One principle people use is called DRY (don't repeat yoursef). One example of this is your whole loop for vowels...

Could be:

for str in wordlist:
    if str[0] in "aAeEiIoOuU":
        latin_list.append(str + "ay")
    else:
        latin_list.append(str[1:] + str[0] + "ay")

And even that won't work for something like "phlegm", which I assume should be "egmphlay". :D

Also I'm still repeating the + "ay", which always needs to be added...