longText - Issue 252

issue_252.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
import unicodedata


def is_vowel(char):
    _char = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', char)
    if _char[0].lower() in 'aeiou':
        return True
    return False


def longText(word, expand):
    if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
        word = word.decode('utf8')

    char_list = [
        c * expand if is_vowel(c) else c
        for c in word
    ]
    return ''.join(char_list)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(longText('hello world', 3))
    print(longText('lol', 10))
    print(longText('Árbol', 5))  # spanish
    print(longText('Füße', 7))  # deutch
    print(longText('mākonis', 3))  # latvia