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Exercise 1

Python 3.5
def vowelCount(word):

  vowel = ['a','e','i','o','u']

  count = 0

  word = word.lower()

  for x in vowel:

    count = count + word.count(x)

  return count



print(vowelCount('Gilles De Rais'))

Explanation

  • Line 2: We define the vowel list, which contains the vowels in the English alphabet.

  • Line 3: The word is converted into lowercase using the lower() method.

  • Line 4: The count variable is set to 0. ...