Been stuck on this one for a week now, please help.

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OK, I need you to finish writing a function for me. The function disemvowel takes a single word as a parameter and then returns that word at the end.
I need you to make it so, inside of the function, all of the vowels ("a", "e", "i", "o", and "u") are removed from the word. Solve this however you want, it's totally up to you!
Oh, be sure to look for both uppercase and lowercase vowels!
disemvowel.py
def disemvowel(word):
    vowel = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
    if word.upper():
        word.remove(vowel)
    elif word.lower():
        word.remove(vowel)
    return word

Erik Linden · Answer

There looks like a couple of items in here to do differently.  Since word is a string, I don't believe that 'remove' is something that can be called and then passed a list.  It should cause an error.  Also the condition is just testing the string method of upper and lower.
This might be better is you use a var to hold the return value.
Then test every letter in word against the list of vowels.  Don't lower the letter except for the testing so that if the return is expected to have an upper then it still will.   If the letter isn't in the vowel list pass it to the return var.
Maybe something like this:
```python
def disemvowel(word):
    out = ''
    vowel = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
    for l in word:
        if l.lower() in vowel:
            continue
        else:
          out+=l
    return out
```

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Victor Katsande

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Been stuck on this one for a week now, please help.

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Erik Linden

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