#Name:
#checkoff3_pig_latin.py

"""
Helper code: You do not need to understand the following code.
"""
import string

WORDLIST_FILENAME = "words.txt"

def loadWords():
    """
    Returns a list of valid words. Words are strings of lowercase letters.
    
    Depending on the size of the word list, this function may
    take a while to finish.
    """
    print "Loading word list from file..."
    # inFile: file
    inFile = open(WORDLIST_FILENAME, 'r', 0)
    # line: string
    line = inFile.readline()
    # wordlist: list of strings
    wordlist = string.split(line)
    print "  ", len(wordlist), "words loaded."
    return wordlist

word_list = loadWords()

"""
End helper code.
"""


############################
### English-to-Pig-Latin ###
############################

# convert the word to Pig Latin

word_to_convert = "boot"

# YOUR CODE HERE

###############################
### Pig Latin validity check ###
################################

# Ask the user for a word; print whether the word
# is a valid Pig Latin version of a word in word_list,
# which is a list of strings

# YOUR CODE HERE