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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Posted by Jason Pallone
Jason Pallone
895 Points

disemvowel challenge

I'm literally always getting stuck with these challenges i don't get it... this is what i have so far and i'm lost

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    vowel = ['a', 'A', 'e', 'E', 'i', 'I', 'o', 'O', 'u', 'U']
    for vowel in word:
        if vowel in word:
            word.remove(vowel)
    return word
joshthorn
joshthorn
30,751 Points
joshthorn
joshthorn
30,751 Points

I'm afraid .remove does not work on strings, however you can use .replace to replace the vowels with an empty string. Like this:

string= "example"
string.replace("e", "")
print (string)

would output xampl, replacing the e character with empty strings.

1 Answer

cb123
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cb123
Courses Plus Student 9,858 Points
cb123
cb123
Courses Plus Student 9,858 Points

The way I completed the challenge

  1. deconstruct word with list function and assign to list_of_word. This way you can construct your for loop to sound like *for character in list_of_word: *
  2. Then follow through with conditional logic if character is in the vowels list then continue loop without doing anything. Else use your += to build characters into a new word variable without vowels.

Essentially you are breaking down word into its pieces then rebuilding with the pieces that don't fall out

Hopefully this interpretation helps.