I Dont know what is wrong with my code

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disemvowel.py

word = "PIZZA" 
def disemvowel(word):   
    vowel = ["a" , "e" ,"i" , "o" , "u","A" , "E" ,"I" , "O" , "U"]
    words = word
    if len(words):
        try:    
            words.remove(vowel)
        except ValueError:
            pass
    return words

Answer 1 · 2018-08-10T01:03:59Z

August 10, 2018 1:03am

Hey,

Your "vowel" variable is set to your list of vowels. You probably need to iterate through the list to attempt to remove each specific vowel from your word. Right now you are telling python to remove the entire list from your word.

Also, you can't call "remove" on a string, so you would need to convert your word into a list first using "list(words)", then loop through your vowels and attempt to remove each.

Finally, if you first shifted your word into all lower (.lower()) or all upper (.upper()) case, you would only need to have 1 set of vowels in your list, making it a bit shorter.

Hope that helps

edit: You could try something like this:

def disemvowel(word):
    vowel = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
    words = word
    if len(words):
            word_string = list(words)
            for letter in word_string:
                    if letter.lower() in vowel:
                            word_string.remove(letter)
    return ''.join(word_string)

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