How to get vowels from a set of words in a text file

Question

Im trying to get 10 vowels in a word from a text file. I realize the issue here is within my get_vowels function, but im not seeing how exactly to fix it. Any help would be appreciated
fin = open('\scrabble\words.txt')
def getaword():
    line = fin.readline()
    word = line.strip()
    return word
def getvowels(word):
    numofv = 0
    for i in range(len(word)):
        if word[i] == 'a' or 'e' or 'i' or 'o' or 'u' or 'y' and not 'w':
            numofv = numofv + 1
    if numof_v == 10:
        return True
    else:
        return False
def printtwowords():
    for i in range(113810):
        word = getaword()
        if get_vowels(word):
            print(word)
printtwowords()

Steven Parker · Answer

Even with the code unformatted, this line stands out:
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 if word[i] == 'a' or 'e' or 'i' or 'o' or 'u' or 'y' and not 'w':

You can use logic ("and", "or") to combine complete expressions, but not to make a single comparison work on multiple terms.  So to make this work, you'd need to finish the expressions:
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 if word[i] == 'a' or word[i] == 'e' or word[i] == 'i' or word[i] == 'o' or #...etc

But a more compact way to do this kind of test is with the membership operator:
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 if word[i] in 'aeiou':  # 'y' and not 'w' ??

I didn't understand what the last part of the test was intended to do so I left it off this example.

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