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Python splitting strings and jumbling the middle

I have a program in python that I am really stuck on, my purpose of this is to take a sentence from a user and jumble the middle of the word leaving the outer to letters intact…My teacher says I need to do something with parameters but I really have no clue how too access or use my function at all…

import random


user_words = input("Enter a word or sentence: ") #Gets user input

word = list(user_words.split()) #Creating a word list of the user input


def Jumble_One_Word(x):

    if len(user_words) > 2: #Only need to change words longer than 2

      first_letter = user_words[0] #Takes the first letter out and defines it

      last_letter = user_words[-1] #Takes the last letter out and defines it

      letters = list(user_words[1:-1]) #Takes the rest and puts them into a list

      random.shuffle(letters) #shuffles the list above

      middle_letters = "".join(letters) #Joins the shuffled list

      final_word = "".join([first_letter, middle_letters, last_letter]) #Puts final      word all back  in place as a list

    print(final_word)#Prints out the final word all back together again


Jumbler_Count = -1

for i in range(len(word)):
    Jumbler_Count + 1
    Word1 = Jumble_One_Word(word[Jumbler_Count])

SAMPLE INPUT: HELLO MY NAME IS
EXPECTED OUTPUT: HLELO MY NMAE IS
RESULTED OUTPUT: H leai El moymns
Hoi ynmeEa lm ls
Hiyn l oelEamms
H naellmEyo m is

Answer 1

you need to work on x inside the function, and you were working on user_words instead.

import random

user_words = input("Enter a word or sentence: ") #Gets user input

word = user_words.split()  #no need of list()

def Jumble_One_Word(x):

    if len(x) > 2: #Only need to change words longer than 2


      first_letter = x[0] #Takes the first letter out and defines it

      last_letter = x[-1] #Takes the last letter out and defines it

      letters = list(x[1:-1]) #Takes the rest and puts them into a list

      random.shuffle(letters) #shuffles the list above

      middle_letters = "".join(letters) #Joins the shuffled list

      final_word = "".join([first_letter, middle_letters, last_letter]) #Puts finalword all back  in place as a list

      return final_word # better return from function inste


for i in word:                 #you can iterate this way too
    print (Jumble_One_Word(i))

output:

$ python3 abc.py
Enter a word or sentence: python guido spam
pyhton
giudo
sapm