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Adam Ryde
5,222 PointsDisemvowel
here is my code.... its late, i have been at work since 5am and i just cannot get my brain to function around this. my way of thinking was, if i put the upper and lower case values of vowels into lists of their own, i could then use those lists to find the vowels and delete them?
i am guessing i was wrong.
def disemvowel(word): vowels_lower = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"] vowels_upper = ["A", "E", "I", "O", "U"]
if vowels_lower in word:
del vowels_lower
elif vowels_upper in word:
del vowels_upper
return word
def disemvowel(word):
vowels_lower = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
vowels_upper = ["A", "E", "I", "O", "U"]
if vowels_lower in word:
del vowels_lower
elif vowels_upper in word:
del vowels_upper
return word
1 Answer
james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Pointsthis throws an error because you are asking if a list is in a string. there's a method in python (lower) that you can call on a string like myString.lower() that will return a lower-case version of myString. you can store that in a variable, cast it to a list and loop through it, removing the vowels from a copy of the list (you must avoid looping through a list that you are simultaneously modifying), or just append the consonants to a new string. either way you should end up with the correctly disemvoweled word.