''' Purpose: determine the length and number of vowels of a user-specified word
'''

# HELPFUL CONSTANT

VOWELS = 'aeiou'

# get the input
reply = input( 'Enter a word: ' )

# clean it up

reply = reply.strip() # Remove leading and trailing whitespace from string

word = reply.lower() # .lower() will convert all characters in the string to lowercase

# We convert to lowercase since we check for lowercase vowels!

# determine and report its length

word_length = len ( word ) # Remember that len( s ) finds length of a string!

# determine and report the total of the number of occurrences of each of the vowels
nbr_of_vowels = 0 # We are accumulating a number so we wanna initialize it with 0.

for v in VOWELS: # We are looping through each vowel
     nbr_vs = word.count( v ) # So this is counting up the number of times the v we are on occurs
     print( v, nbr_vs )
     nbr_of_vowels = nbr_of_vowels + nbr_vs

print(nbr_of_vowels)
# Remember that v changes to a new vowel every time we run through the loop,
# count up the number of times that vowel occurs and add that count to our
# total (accumulator), nbr_of_vowels so that we have the total from each time
# nbr_vs changes.
# So why do we use an accumulator? Because we wanna reassign and update a value
# so that we don't lose the value of nbr_of_vowels.