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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Posted by ishakahmed
ishakahmed
11,359 Points

When word = OUacYvZ, my code removes all the vowels. BUT, when word = IUacYvZ, my code fails to remove the "I".

def disemvowel(word):

vowels = ['a' , 'e' ,'u', 'o', 'i', 'A','E' 'I', 'O', 'U']
oldword = list(word)

for a in vowels:
    while a in oldword:
        oldword.remove(a)
    else:
        continue     

return "".join(oldword)

Why is this happening?

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! You're doing terrific and this challenge trips up many. In your case, it's a typo. You've omitted a comma between two of the vowels in the vowel list.

You wrote:

vowels = ['a' , 'e' ,'u', 'o', 'i', 'A','E' 'I', 'O', 'U']

But you meant to write:

#note the comma betweeen the capital E and capital I
vowels = ['a' , 'e' ,'u', 'o', 'i', 'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U']

On a side note, your else block is not needed. An else is only used in conjunction with an if statement.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

ishakahmed
ishakahmed
11,359 Points

Lol. Thank you! I wish I figured it out earlier.