upload a syllable dictionary and code that will spit out the number o…

…f syllables in a single word

syllable_breakdown.py

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+"""
+Syllable Counter
+
+file referenced is a version of a dictionary from a CMU pronnunciation guide:
+http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict?in=software+design+is+hard&stress=-s
+
+Madi Wyatt
+"""
+
+import string
+
+#initialize the dictionary and open the CMU dictionary file
+pronnunciation_dict = open("syllable_dict.txt", "r")
+words = dict()
+
+#breakdown CMU dictionary and make a new one that gives us just the syllable count
+for word_entry in pronnunciation_dict:
+    word_list = word_entry.split()
+    words[word_list[0]] = "".join(word_list[1:])
+    count = 0
+    for i in range(0, len(words[word_list[0]])):
+        if words[word_list[0]][i] in string.digits:
+            count += 1
+    words[word_list[0]] = count
+
+#write a function that allows you to imput a word and the syllable count is output
+def syllable_count(word):
+    return words[word.upper()]
+
+print(syllable_count("hello"))