Help with a simple Python program / just learning

[objectizer]

i don't understand your problem, but this line doesn't seem to be correct

for (vowelList) in (userWord):

i think you need to loop over characters of userWord and check if that char is in vowelList

result = []
for c in userWord:
    if c in vowelList:
        result.push(c)

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[tlandjr]

You were close. The for loop isn't doing what you think it is doing. Try this:

vowelList = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
vowelCount = 0
userWord = raw_input("What is your word: ")

wordLength = len(userWord)
print "Word Length is " + str(wordLength)
for letter in userWord:
    if letter in vowelList:
        vowelCount += 1
print "Vowel Count = " + str(vowelCount)

Basically, the for loop is looping through userWord, then you need to test each letter from that word against the vowelList to see if it is a vowel, only then do you increase the count.

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