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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Dominick Bartenope
Dominick Bartenope
2,092 Points
Posted by Dominick Bartenope
Dominick Bartenope
2,092 Points

Disemvowel

I'm successfully removing the vowels it would seem, but the error message keeps saying that I'm returning a list even though I am trying to join final_result in the 'if' block.

ex.) Should be getting back 'Gjzk', but got back ['G', 'j', 'z', 'k']

disemvowel.py 
vowels = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
final_result = []

def disemvowel(word):
    for letter in word:
        if letter.lower() not in vowels:
            final_result.append(letter)
            ''.join(final_result)
    return final_result

2 Answers

Patrick Rice
Patrick Rice
11,017 Points
Patrick Rice
Patrick Rice
11,017 Points

Very close - just need to assign ''.join(final_result) to a variable and return it.

def disemvowel(word):
    vowels = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
    final_result = []
    for letter in word:
        if letter.lower() not in vowels:
            final_result.append(letter)

    final_result = ''.join(final_result)
    return final_result
Dominick Bartenope
Dominick Bartenope
2,092 Points
Dominick Bartenope
Dominick Bartenope
2,092 Points

Thanks! Makes a lot of sense now