在循环的第一阶段不读取元音

Question

My program is suppose to get an alphabetic character from the user and determine if it is a vowel, consonant, space, or illegal character.

It says it is a consonant if I input 'a' when ran. User only inputs one character. The space part of the loop works, but everything else is a consonant when I enter it.

myvar = raw_input("Enter an alpabetic character: ")

if myvar == ("a", "e", "i", "o", "u"):
    print "Your character", myvar, "is a vowel"
elif myvar == " ":
    print "Your character", myvar, "is a space"
elif myvar != "a, e, i, o, u, ,":
    print "Your character", myvar, "is a consonant"
else:
    print "Ooops! I think you've messed up"

Answer 1

Your comparisons are incorrect.

myvar == ("a", "e", "i", "o", "u")

This compares myvar to the tuple ("a", "e", "i", "o", "u") . I think you want something more like

if myvar in ("a", "e", "i", "o", "u"):

This will check if myvar appears in the tuple containing your vowels.

Using this methodology, you can adjust your consonant check to read:

if myvar not in ("a", "e", "i", "o", "u"):

As you currently have it, you are checking if myvar is equal to the string "a, e, i, o, u, ,"

An edit: You could also convert your tuples to lists ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"] and keep the same checks.