[SuperSlow]

So I am trying to do a basic pig latin translator. I got it to do single words. But I cannot get the split to work. I have racked my brain and many web pages for hours trying to get the two to work together. Some help would be greatly appreciated.

def pigWord(word):
    first = word[0]
    end = word[1:]
    sentence = "This is a test"
    word = sentence.split()
    finish = end + first + "ay"
    return finish

print (pigWord)

[Tayacan]

Two things:

First, you're printing the wrong thing.

print (pigWord)

will print out something like this:

<function pigWord at 0x914fc34>

That's just a function object. What you want is to print the result of calling the function with some parameter:

print (pigWord("hey"))

The other thing is that after you split sentence, and assign it to the variable word, you never use it again - so how can you tell that it's not working?

[SuperSlow]

Yes I do understand that.
If I plug in

print(pigWord("this is a test"))

I get (his is a testTay).
I am trying to remove the first letter from each word and move it the the end of each word and add "ay".
My online book does not go into much of any detail on how to use split. I have tried so many different possibilities and I keep getting the same results. Should I make another function for split?

[Tayacan]

Nope, you're actually nearly there. As I said, you split up the string, but you never do anything with the result.

def pigWord(word):
    finish = ""
    # Split the sentence into words
    words = word.split()
    for w in words:
        # Make the piglatin word
        first = w[0]
        end = w[1:]
        finish += end + first + "ay " # Append it to the new string
    return finish

print (pigWord("Test with several words"))

This will put an extra space at the end of the line, but that's easy to fix

[SuperSlow]

oh man now I feel dorky. I should have realized that I needed a for loop to apply it to each word.
Thank you so much.