How to save each letter while the while loop is running

Question

word = raw_input('Enter a word: ')

for i in word:
    if i in ['a','e','i','u','A','E','I','O','o','U']:
        word1 = i
        break

    else:
        print i,


print ""

i = 0
while word[i]!=word1:

This is where I am having a problem. I need to save each letter before the vowel(or g as I have attempted). This is the beginnings of a pig latin translator. In this stage, I am trying to flip the prefix and the rest of the word.

    g = word[i]
    i = i+1


prefix = g + word1

print prefix

Example:

input -  person
output - rsonpe

input -  hello
output - llohe

input -  pppat
output - tpppa

input -  hhhhhelllllloool
output - llllllooolhhhhhe

I am flipping the letters before the first vowel, and the rest of the word.

Answer 1

Looks like a job for regular expressions :

import re

Vowel = re.compile('[aeiouAEIOU]')

def flipper ( inStr ) :
    myIndex = Vowel.search( inStr ).start() + 1
    return inStr[myIndex:] + inStr[:myIndex]

flipper( 'hello' )

output:

'llohe'

Alternatively, if you really want to do it with a while loop, you just need to define a global variable outside of the while loop that you can save to.

Answer 2

you can use regular expression if you are familiar with it or you can just edit your code like this in a very simple and crude way.

word = raw_input('Enter a word: ')
word1 = 0
for i in range(0,len(word)) :
    if word[i] in ['a','e','i','u','A','E','I','O','o','U']:
        word1=i
        break
print word[word1+1:]+word[:word1]+word[word1]