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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Posted by sai d
sai d
64 Points

what is the error

what is the error

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    v=['a','e',"i","o","u"]

    for letters in word.lower:
        if letters == v:
            word.remove(letters==v)
        else:
            continue
    return word

1 Answer

Stuart McIntosh
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Stuart McIntosh
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Stuart McIntosh
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 22,874 Points

Hi there a few errors above

  1. you forgot the parentheses around lower
  2. you then check if a letter is equal to the entire list
  3. there is no string.remove function in the string class

Here is an answer that I put together, hopefully it makes sense

def disemvowel(word):
    new_word = ''                   #setup string variable to get the result
    v=['a','e',"i","o","u"]
    for letter in word.lower():     #iterate through the string lower it first
        if letter in v:             #check if the letter is in teh vowel list
            continue                # if yes - do nothing with it
        else:
            new_word += letter      #else letter is not a vowel so add it to the result string
    return new_word                 

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(disemvowel('Friday'))     #print the return from the disemvowel function

Hi Sai, I just realised that you are in the lists part of python so if you want use remove() you need to do that with the list

here is another version for you.

def disemvowel(word):
    word = list(word.lower())     # create a list from word lower all the chars first
    v=['a','e',"i","o","u"]
    for letter in word:           # iterate through the list word
        if letter in v:           # check if the letter is in teh vowel list
            word.remove(letter)   # use the list.remove() function to remove the letter
    return ''.join(word)          # return a joined version of the list (string)  

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(disemvowel('Friday'))   # print the return from the disemvowel function