Program not giving the expected result

Question

I\'m currently following an intro to cs course in python. The code is given below.

school = \'Massachusetts Institute of Technology\'
numVowels = 0
numCons = 0
         


        

Answer 1

Your code seems to be case sensitive. A quick fix would be

school = 'Massachusetts Institute of Technology'
numVowels = 0
numCons = 0

for char in school.lower():
    if char in "aeiou":
        numVowels += 1
    elif char in "om":
        print(char)
    else:
        numCons -= 1

print('numVowels is: ' + str(numVowels))
print('numCons is: ' + str(numCons))

resulting in

m
numVowels is: 12
numCons is: -24

Though note that your code isn't counting consonants, just characters that aren't vowels or m.

Maybe consider the following instead:

import string
school = 'Massachusetts Institute of Technology'
numVowels = 0
numCons = 0

for char in school.lower():
    if char in "aeiou":
        numVowels += 1
    elif char in string.ascii_letters:
        numCons += 1

Though it really depends what you're trying to do with your resulting numVowels and numCons variables. Without an explict expected output, it's tough to say.