alliteration.py

cocktails = [
    (1, 'This is a name'),
    (2, 'The beauty beneath'),
    (3, 'woo woo'),
    (4, 'martinez'),
    (5, 'the crow cocktail'),
    (6, 'charlie chaplain cocktail'),
    (7, 'gin n it')
]

ignore_words = set(['the'])

def alliterates(name):
    words = [w for w in name.split() if w not in ignore_words]
    if len(words) == 1:
        return False
    first_letters = set(w[0] for w in words)
    return len(first_letters) == 1

def alliterating_names(cocktails):
    return [n for n in cocktails if alliterates(n[1])]

print alliterating_names(cocktails)