The Minion Game
Kevin and Stuart want to play the 'The Minion Game'.
Game Rules
Both players are given the same string, .
Both players have to make substrings using the letters of the string .
Stuart has to make words starting with consonants.
Kevin has to make words starting with vowels.
The game ends when both players have made all possible substrings.
Scoring
A player gets +1 point for each occurrence of the substring in the string .
For Example:
String = BANANA
Kevin's vowel beginning word = ANA
Here, ANA occurs twice in BANANA. Hence, Kevin will get 2 Points.
For better understanding, see the image below:

Your task is to determine the winner of the game and their score.
Function Description
Complete the minion_game in the editor below.
minion_game has the following parameters:
- string string: the string to analyze
Prints
- string: the winner's name and score, separated by a space on one line, or
Drawif there is no winner
Input Format
A single line of input containing the string .
Note: The string will contain only uppercase letters: .
Constraints
Sample Input
BANANA
Sample Output
Stuart 12
Note :
Vowels are only defined as . In this problem, is not considered a vowel.
CODE:
#THIS was giving timeout error
def minion_game(string):
Stuart=0
Kevin=0
string=string.upper()
for i in range(len(string)):
if string[i] in "AEIOU":
a=string[i]
Kevin+=1
for j in range(i+1,len(string)):
a+=string[j]
Kevin+=1
else:
a=string[i]
Stuart+=1
for j in range(i+1,len(string)):
a+=string[j]
Stuart+=1
if Stuart>Kevin:
print('Stuart',Stuart )
elif Kevin>Stuart:
print('Kevin',Kevin)
else:
print("Draw")
Other CODE:
def minion_game(string):
vowel = "AEIOU"
sc = 0
kc = 0
x = len(string)
for i in range(x):
if string[i] in vowel:
kc += x - i
else:
sc += x - i
if sc > kc:
print("Stuart", str(sc))
elif kc > sc:
print("Kevin", str(kc))
else:
print("Draw")
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