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949 PointsCan I get help with Disemvowel coding challenge
I get this error TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not list
What am I missing I have been at this for hours now.
def disemvowel(word):
vowel=['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u']
for letter in word:
if vowel in word:
word = word.replace(vowel, '')
return word
1 Answer
Blake Kazmierzak
2,491 PointsOkay so here are some comments for what's wrong with your solution:
def disemvowel(word):
vowel=['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u']
for letter in word:
# Here, you checked to see if the list, vowel, was inside if your word variable
# Rather, you should take advantage of your loop though word and see if each
# letter is inside your list of vowels, or your vowel variable
# Remember for this challenge, you want it to work for upper and lower case variables
# one way to do this is to use .lower() on your letters you looped through
# this way, they will all be lower case just like the vowels in your vowel list
if vowel in word:
# so here, you want to replace the letter variable with an empty string
# so word.replace(letter, '')
word = word.replace(vowel, '')
return word
Here is a working solution that simply tweaks what you had:
def disemvowel(word):
vowel=['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u']
for letter in word:
if letter.lower() in vowel:
word = word.replace(letter, '')
return word
mr19
949 Pointsmr19
949 PointsThank you I will be more detailed next time.