Brian Woodward's VinSolutions Code exercise

__author__ = "Brian Woodward"

#Python Code excersise
    #    Parse a sentence and replace each word with the following:
    #    first letter, number of distinct characters between first and last character, and last letter,
    #    For example, Smooth would become S3h.
    #    Words are separated by spaces or non-alphabetic characters

print("")

print("Thank you for taking the time to review my code, I hope like it!")

input = "Please enter your sentence here."

print("")
print("")

print(input)

print("")
print("")

#Find the fist letter in each word
print("Find the first letter in each word")
first_letters = [ i[0].upper() for i in input.split() ]; output = "".join(first_letters)
print(first_letters)
print("")

#Find the number of characters between the first and last character in the word
print("Find the number of characters between the first and last word")
words = input.split()
letter_count_per_word = [(len(w)-2) for w in words]
print(letter_count_per_word)
print("")

#Find the last character in each word
print("Find the last character in each word")
last_character = [i[-1].lower() for i in input.split()]; output = "".join(last_character)
print(last_character)

print("")
print("")

# Zip lists together to create end result
print("Add the First Letter, # of characters between first and last character in the word, and the last character of the word to create new desired word")
# Having an issue after combining the variables, the end result does not sequence the words in the same pattern as the sentence.
A2 = (first_letters[:])
B2 = (letter_count_per_word[:])
C2 = (last_character[:])
D = zip(A2, B2, C2)
E = sorted(D, key=lambda x: x[1])
A2, B2, C2 = zip(*E)
print(E)
# Question: How to merge the elements within an array down to one object in the array.
# Question: How to display the zipped array in the same format as the sentence.

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