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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Posted by Mark Barclay
Mark Barclay
890 Points

Disemvowel did not work

The code worked in the Python shell. I tested word = 'AabcdEeIiOoUu'. Disemvowel(word) returned 'bcd'.

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    vowels = ['a','e','i','o','u']
    word = word.lower()
    word_list = list(word)
    word_list_temp = list(word)
    for letter in (word_list):
        if letter in vowels:
            word_list_temp.remove(letter)         
    return ''.join(word_list_temp)

1 Answer

Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,119 Points
Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,119 Points

The reason that your challenge isn't passing is that it converts the word to all lowercase. The challenge doesn't ask for that. If you pass your function 'aBcDeF', it will return 'bcdf'. You need it to return 'BcDF'.

Here's an edited version of your code that works, although there's probably a way to do something more elegant using .upper() or .lower().

def disemvowel(word):
    vowels = ['a','e','i','o','u','A','E','I','O','U']
    word_list = list(word)
    word_list_temp = list(word)
    for letter in (word_list):
        if letter in vowels:
            word_list_temp.remove(letter)         
    return ''.join(word_list_temp)