pyglatin.py

print "Welcome to the English to Pig Latin Translator!"

import sys

pyg = "ay"

vowel = "a","e","i","o","u"
v_sound = "hour","heir","honor","honest"                                         # complete???

consonant = "b","c","d","f","g","h","j","k","l","m","n","p","q","r","s","t","v","w","x","y","z"
c_four = "chth","phth","schl","schm","schn","schr","scht","schw","sphr"
c_three = "chr","chl","cht","ngw","phl","phr","psh","sch","scl","scr","sgr","shk","shl","shm","shn","shr","sht","sph","spl","spr","sth","str","tch","thr","thw","tsk"
c_two = "ch"
c_sound = "uni"                                                                  # complete???

def PygLatin():
    def Translate():
        c_message = "Your entry %s begins with a consonant sound, so the consonant sound with appended \"-%s\" will be moved to the end. Translated to Pig Latin, your entry is:" %(word,pyg)
        confirm = raw_input(word+"\nIs this the word you entered?[Y/N] ")
        if confirm in ["y","yes"] :
            if word.startswith(vowel) or word.startswith(v_sound) :              # Begins with a vowel or vowel sound
                print "Your entry \"%s\" begins with a vowel sound, so \"-%s\" will simply be appended at the end. Translated to Pig Latin, your entry is:" %(word,pyg)
                pig = "%s-%s" %(word,pyg)
                print pig
                TryAgain()
#            elif len(word) > 100 :                                               # Entirely consonants???
#                print "Your entry \"%s\" is entirely consonants, so \"-%s\" will simply be appended at the end. Translated to Pig Latin, your entry is:" %(word,pyg)
#                print "%s-%s" %(word,pyg)
#                TryAgain()
            elif word.startswith(c_four) :                                       # Begins with four consonants
                print c_message
                pig = "%s-%s%s" %(word[4:],word[0:4],pyg)
                print pig
                TryAgain()
            elif word.startswith(c_three) :                                      # Begins with three consonants
                print c_message
                pig = "%s-%s%s" %(word[3:],word[0:3],pyg)
                print pig
                TryAgain()
            elif word.startswith(c_two) :                                        # Begins with two consonants
                print c_message
                pig = "%s-%s%s" %(word[2:],word[0:2],pyg)
                print pig
                TryAgain()
            elif word.startswith(consonant) or word.startswith(c_sound) :        # Begins with a consonant or consonant sound
                print c_message
                pig = "%s-%s%s" %(word[1:],word[0],pyg)
                print pig
                TryAgain()
            else:
                print "Either your entry is not English or the Pig Latin Translator has not yet figured out how to translate your word. Sorry!"
                TryAgain()
        if confirm in ["n","no"]:
            TryAgain()
        else:
            Translate()

    word = raw_input("Enter an English word to be translated to Pig Latin: ").lower()
    if len(word) > 0 and word.isalpha():
        Translate()
    elif word.isalpha() :
        print "There was something wrong with your entry. Try again using only alphabetic characters."
        TryAgain()
    else:
        PygLatin()

def TryAgain():
    repeat = raw_input("\nStart over?[Y/N] ").lower()
    if repeat in ["y","yes"] :
        print "OK.\n"
        PygLatin()
    elif repeat in ["n","no"] :
        raw_input("\nPress ENTER to exit the English to Pig Latin Translator.")
        sys.exit()
    else:
        TryAgain()

PygLatin()