Question

In python, how would I go about counting the number of consonants in a word? I realize there are a couple different ways to do this, but I think my way of choice would be to analyze each letter of a word and add to a counter when I encounter a consonant. I just can’t figure out how to implement it.

Something starting with this?

count = 0
consonant = 'astringofconsonants'
if consonant in string[0]:
    count += 1

Answer 1

The start you have given is not very pythonic.

Try iterating through the list using

for c in word:
    if c in consonants:
        # do something

You could also use a generator like the following. It will go through each letter and count the number of each consonant is in the word.

(word.count(c) for c in consonants)

use the sum() function to add them all up