Cannot determine vowels from consonants

Question

With the code below, no matter what the first letter of the input is, it is always determined as a vowel:

original = raw_input(\"Please type in a word: \")
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Answer 1

Python is not the English language. If you have a bunch of expressions with or or and between them, each one must make sense on its own. Note that on its own:

if "e":
    print("something")

will always print something, even if letter doesn't equal "e".

You need to do it like this:

if letter == "a" or letter == "e"  # (...)

Or, more concisely:

if letter in "aeiouy":