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

Try this for your Boolean expression:

firstLetter = 'a'
firstLetter in 'aeiou' 
True

firstLetter = 'x'
firstLetter in 'aeiou' 
False

This is equivalent to

      firstLetter in ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u']

i.e., you want to put this into your if statement like this:

if firstLetter  in 'aeiou':
   print 'vowel'
else:
   print 'consonant'

Note:

Your original approach was on the right track, but you would have had to compare each letter separetely like

if firstLetter == 'a' or firstLetter == 'e' or firstLetter == 'i' or ... 

Using the above is much more concise.