codingdirectional: Manipulate string with python

After I have visited codewars yesterday I continue to visit that site today and solve one more problem. We will stick to codewars site for a while and solve some problems in the incoming few articles before we move on to visit another website. If you have not yet joined codewars then you should really give it a try. The problem I have solved a few moments ago looks like this:-

Move the first character of the word to the back of that word, if the first character is a member of the punctuation mark group then just leave that character alone. Finally, add in ‘ay’ to the end of every word except the one with its first character is a punctuation mark. Below is the entire solution.

import string

def pig_it(words):

    word_list = words.strip().split(' ') # strip empty spaces then turn words into a list
    new_word = '' # the new string which will return by this function

    for i in range(len(word_list)):

        word = list(word_list[i]) # turn word into a character list

        if(word[0] not in string.punctuation): # if the first character in the list is not a punctuation mark

            # then extract out that first character from that entire word
            front = word[0]
            del word[0]

            new_word += ''.join(word) + front + 'ay' + ' ' # finally add in that original front character and 'ay' to the back of the new word 
        else:
            new_word += ''.join(word) + ' ' # or else just concatenate two words together
    
    return new_word.strip()

Now if we enter these words into the above function ‘ Hello world !my man ‘ we will get this in return

The entire new string generates by the above program

I have purposely leaved empty spaces in the front and back of the above words just to demonstrate to you that this program will remove those spaces when it needs to. This program is the modified version of the one which I have submitted to codewars which requires two loops to get the job done. Maybe you have a better suggestion to make this program even shorter, do let me know by leaving your comment at the bottom of this post.

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