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Python Python Collections (Retired) Lists Redux Disemvoweled

Andy Bosco
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Andy Bosco
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Posted by Andy Bosco
Andy Bosco
Courses Plus Student 681 Points

state_list.remove(vowel). "state_list" is a List and "vowel" is A string.

At state_list.remove(vowel). "state_list" is a List and "vowel" is A string. Python allows the remove of the String inside the List. When I tried to test my code below it won't work and got the error ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list. Why my code doesn't work? My variable "word" is a List and "vowels" is a String.

word = ['Treehouse'] vowels = ('aeiou') word.remove(vowels) print word

2 Answers

Nicholas Ah Kun
Nicholas Ah Kun
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Nicholas Ah Kun
Nicholas Ah Kun
2,419 Points

Remember, to convert a 'string' to a list you can use vowel_list = list('aeiou')

This will create vowel_list as a list with the 5 elements of ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u']

You can then iterate over the vowel list

Jack Stout
Jack Stout
2,796 Points
Jack Stout
Jack Stout
2,796 Points 
list.remove = remove(...)
    L.remove(value) -> None -- remove first occurrence of value.
    Raises ValueError if the value is not present.

list.remove will remove an item from a list, but it won't filter out parts of a string nested inside the list. By saying ["Treehouse"].remove("aeiou"), you're telling Python to remove the string "aeiou" from the list, not from the string "Treehouse" inside the list.

For example:

>>> word = ['Treehouse', 'aeiou']
>>> vowel = 'aeiou'
>>> word
['Treehouse', 'aeiou']
>>> vowel
'aeiou'
>>> word.remove(vowel)
>>> word
['Treehouse']
>>> word.remove(vowel)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list