Question

I am trying to make a program in Python that opens a file and tells you how many lines, vowels, consonants, and digits there are in the file.

I got the print out of lines, digits, and consonants, but the if statement I made with the vowels list isn't recognizing them. How can I make the vowels go through the if statement with the list? Am I using the wrong operator?

Here is my program

#Assignment Ch7-1
#This program takes a user input file name and returns how many lines, vowels,
#consonants and digits are in the
while True:
    vowel = 0
    cons = 0
    digit = 0
    count = 0
    vlist = ('aeiou')
    try:
        fname = input('Please enter the file name to open:')
        fhand = open(fname)
  
        for line in fhand:
            count += 1
            for ch in line:
                if ch.isdigit():
                    digit +=1
                elif ch.isalpha():
                    if ch is vlist:
                        vowel += 1
                    else:
                        cons += 1
              
          
        print('This is the vowels: ',vowel)
        print('These are the digits: ',digit)
                  
        print('These are the consanants: ',cons)
        print('These are the lines: ',count)
                      
        ans = input("Do you want try again y/n: ") #asking user to contiune
        
        if ans == 'y' or ans == 'Y':
            continue
        else:
            if ans == 'n' or ans == 'N':
                print('Goodbye')
                break   
    except:
        print('File cannot be opened:', fname)
        continue
          
          
  

Answer 1

Please find the fixed code below :

while True:
   vowel = 0
   cons = 0
   digit = 0
   count = 0
   vlist = ('aeiou')
   try:
       fname = input('Please enter the file name to open:')
       fhand = open(fname)
       for line in fhand:
           count += 1
           for ch in line:
               if ch.isdigit():
                   digit +=1
               elif ch.isalpha():
                   if ch in vlist:
                       vowel += 1
                   else:
                       cons += 1
          
       print('This is the vowels: ',vowel)
       print('These are the digits: ',digit)
              
       print('These are the consanants: ',cons)
       print('These are the lines: ',count)
                  
       ans = input("Do you want try again y/n: ") #asking user to contiune
      
       if ans == 'y' or ans == 'Y':
           continue
       else:
           if ans == 'n' or ans == 'N':
               print('Goodbye')
               break   
   except:
       print('File cannot be opened:', fname)
       continue

Sample Output :

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Sample Output:

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