How to let Python recognize both lower and uppercase input?
lowercase, python, uppercase
Solution
Convert the word entirely to lowercase (or uppercase) first:
word = input("Please Enter a word:").lower() # Or `.upper()`
Also, to get the first letter of your word, use `word[0]`, not `word[1]`. Lists are zero-indexed in Python and almost all programming languages.
You can also condense your code by quite a bit:
word = input("Please Enter a word:")
if word[0].lower() in 'aeiou':
print("The word begins with a vowel")
else:
print("The word do not begin with a vowel")
Problem
I am new to Python. I am writing a program that distinguishes whether or not a word starts with a vowel. The problem is, that the program is only able to correctly handle uppercase letters as input. For example, if I provide the word "Apple" as input, the result is `True`; however, if the word "apple" is provided as input, the result is `False`. How do I fix it? ``` word = input ("Please Enter a word:") if (word [1] =="A") : print("The word begins with a vowel") elif (word [1] == "E") : print("The word begins with a vowel") elif (word [1] == "I") : print("The word begins with a vowel") elif (word [1] == "O") : print("The word begins with a vowel") elif (word [1] == "U") : print("The word begins with a vowel") else: print ("The word do not begin with a vowel") ```