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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Posted by MIGUEL VELECUA
MIGUEL VELECUA
1,090 Points

OK, I need you to finish writing a function for me. The function disemvowel takes a single word as a parameter and then

Hi there!

I find this exercise very dificult to understand. Can anyone enlighten me as to what exactly is required.

Regards

1 Answer

Greg Kaleka
Greg Kaleka
39,021 Points
Greg Kaleka
Greg Kaleka
39,021 Points

Hi Miguel,

I'm pretty late in answering, but hopefully this is still helpful!

This is a tricky one! I've seen lots of questions about it, so you're not alone.

The goal here is to write a function that takes any string as an input and outputs that string with all the vowels removed.

Example: if you call disemvowel('Um, here is a string with vowels in it'), it would return "m hr s strng wth vwls n t"

There are a few ways you could do this - it's left pretty open. Here's a clue: a string is iterable in python. So you could loop over each character in word and add it to a result variable that starts as an empty string if it's not a vowel, then return result instead of word.

Cheers :beers:

-Greg