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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Kade Carlson
Kade Carlson
5,928 Points
Posted by Kade Carlson
Kade Carlson
5,928 Points

Still not understanding this very well

Someone else tried answering this for me but I still can't get it

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

1 Answer

bryonlarrance
bryonlarrance
16,414 Points
bryonlarrance
bryonlarrance
16,414 Points

A couple things that might help.

This site is great for visualizing your code http://pythontutor.com/

Also, you can go the list route, but I think it is a bit more condensed to keep your word as a string.

I created a new_word. Searched for every letter in that word that is NOT in the string 'aeiou'

Then I added or concatenated the letters that are not vowels into my new_word. 

def disemvowel(word):
    new_word = ''
    for letter in word:
        if letter.lower() not in 'aeiou':
            new_word += letter
    return new_word

Put this code in python tutor and it might help to see the process in real time. 

def disemvowel(word):
    new_word = ''
    for letter in word:
        if letter.lower() not in 'aeiou':
            new_word += letter
    print (new_word)

disemvowel('gCCeoriiiiige')