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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Raduica Sebastian
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Raduica Sebastian
Courses Plus Student 1,356 Points
Posted by Raduica Sebastian
Raduica Sebastian
Courses Plus Student 1,356 Points

Removing vowels from a word

It dosen't work this way.. and i can't thing for another solution

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    word=word.lower()
    word=list(word)
    for letter in word:
        if letter == "a":
            word.remove("a")   
        elif letter == "e":
            word.remove("e")
        elif letter == "i":
            word.remove("i")
        elif letter == "o":
            word.remove("o")
        elif letter == "u":
            word.remove("u")
return word

1 Answer

AJ Salmon
AJ Salmon
5,675 Points
AJ Salmon
AJ Salmon
5,675 Points

Hi there! This challenge asks you to remove all of the vowels from a word, and then return that word as a string, so you'll have to use .join() at the end. Also, if the original word has uppercase consonants in it, you'll need to keep those as uppercase (so disemvowel(Treehouse) would return Trhs. Your code would return trhs, which wouldn't pass the challenge, so don't use .lower() on the word! Hopefully this helps a little bit.

Happy coding!