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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Pitrov Secondary
Pitrov Secondary
5,121 Points
Posted by Pitrov Secondary
Pitrov Secondary
5,121 Points

Can you help me with this coding challenge?

I cant figure out what is wrong here. Is there a place I can see the answer, or do I have to ask the community?

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    for letter in word:
        if letter.upper in 'A' or 'E' or 'I' or 'O' or 'U':
           del letter
    return word

print(disemvowel('iamthebest'))

1 Answer

Ernestas Petruoka
Ernestas Petruoka
1,856 Points
Ernestas Petruoka
Ernestas Petruoka
1,856 Points

Hi mate I am still learning to so my code probably ain't perfect, but working. So first thing I did in this challange was converting string to list in new variable by doing word = list(word) because strings are imutable and lists are mutable and we do need change that string. then created list of all vowels by doing L = ['A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U']. then I started loop for letter in L: and checked if letter is vowel or not with if letter.upper() in L: (BTW you missed () in your code) and if it is true then I do word.remove(letter) and in the end I simply return list converted into string by return ''.join(word). My whole code looks like this:

def disemvowel(word):
    word = list(word)
    L = ['A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U']
    for letter in word.copy():
        if letter.upper() in L:
           word.remove(letter)
    return ''.join(word)

That's it. :) BTW Sorry if I made some grammar mistakes, my english is far away from perfect :)

Pitrov Secondary
Pitrov Secondary
5,121 Points
Pitrov Secondary
Pitrov Secondary
5,121 Points

Thanks for the answer, it works! I did not notice any grammar mistakes, do you know of Grammarly? It helps me out when I write something in English. I spent so much time on that one, because I forgot about list(), I did not know how to make it into a list