Python string and lists

Question

Been sitting on this minor problem a few days now, I don't know if I have it all wrong or just missed out on something.

The Objective: From each word in a sentence - Find the first vowel, remove the letters after that vowel from the word and multiply the remaining letters by 3.

The Example: If I have the sentence: "Hello World" the wanted output should be "HeHeHe WoWoWo".

My Code:

def bebis(inrad):
    utrad = ""
    inrad = inrad.split()
    for tkn in inrad:
        for tkn1 in tkn: #Eftersom tkn ar ordlista nu.
            if tkn1 in vokaler:
                count = len(tkn1)
                utrad += tkn1
            elif tkn1 in konsonanter:
                utrad += tkn1
    return utrad[:count+1]*3

print("Bebisspraket:",bebis(inrad))

My Thoughts: I split the sentence into a lists of words using split(). Then I use two for loops, one that should go through each word and the other one that should go through each letter in every word. If it finds a vowel, count where it is and then return the letters to the first vowel of the word.

My Problem: The output only gives me the first WORD in a sentence and breaks from there. So "Hello World" yields "HeHeHe" leaving me super frustrated. Why does it not go through the rest of the sentence?

Answer 1

How about something like this:

import re

def bebis_word(word):
    first_vowel = re.search("[aeiou]", word, re.IGNORECASE)

    if first_vowel:
        return word[0:first_vowel.start() + 1] * 3
    else:
        return ''    

def bebis(sentence):
    words = [bebis_word(word) for word in sentence.split()]

    return " ".join(words)

print bebis("Hello World")

Output:

HeHeHe WoWoWo