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Brandon Cushman
880 PointsI do not understand how to execute this challenge..
In my opinion this was kind of a big leap from the just reviewing lists and I feel I did not learn enough to really understand what to do here. In some other questions for this challenge I have seen .join used when we have not even learned how to use that. I have also seen blank strings being used in some cases and I don't recall learning that either. In any case, I am having a lot of trouble how to get this code to work. We are trying to remove the vowels from the word and then returning the word at the end.. Any help and explanation would be awesome. Maybe I totally blanked and forgot these parts but I have python for beginners twice through and have not found these explained.
def disemvowel(word):
vowels = ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', 'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U']
elist = []
for letter in word:
if letter not in vowels:
elist.appened(letter)
2 Answers
james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Pointsyour algorithm is fine you just need to return elist joined into a string. join is covered in python basics, there is a challenge with ice cream sundae flavors that uses it. join is called on the delimiting string with the collection to be joined as the argument, so like ', '.join(collection) would join the elements in collection separated by a comma and a space. in this case the empty string is your delimiter since you're joining into a word, so ''.join(collection).
Brandon Cushman
880 PointsWow, thank you so much.. I don't know why I forgot that section.. just reading the ice cream part jogged my memory.. I need to review sections better next time.. thank you again!