How to let Python recognize both lower and uppercase input?

Question

I am new to Python. I am writing a program that distinguishes whether or not a word starts with a vowel. The problem is, that the program is only able to correctly handle up

Answer 1

The check for vowels is done using str.startswith which can accept a tuple of multiple values. PEP 8 Style Guide for Python Code recommends the use of startswith with over string slicing for better readability of code:

Use ''.startswith() and ''.endswith() instead of string slicing to check for prefixes or suffixes.

Conditional Expressions are used to set the message indicating whether the word starts with a vowel or not. Then I used the String Formatting method to prepare the message. Also just as a English grammar correction thing I replaced the sentence "The word do not begin with a vowel" with "The word does not begin with a vowel".

word = input("Please Enter a word:")
is_vowel = 'does' if word.lower().startswith(tuple('aeiou')) else 'does not'
print("The word {} begin with a vowel".format(is_vowel))