disemvowel

Question

I really dont see why this isnt working. I got it to work nicely in workspace
disemvowel.py
def disemvowel(word):
    word_list = list(word)
    for letter in word_list:
        if letter.lower() in 'aeiou':
            word_list.remove(letter)
    word = "".join(word_list)
    return word

Abdishakur Hassan · Answer

There is only one thing wrong with your code. You need to loop with the original word not the word_list.
So your code will look like this:
  
def disemvowel(word):
    word_list = list(word)
    for letter in word:
        if letter.lower() in 'aeiou':
            word_list.remove(letter)
    word = "".join(word_list)
    return word

Daniel Schmidt · Answer

Try this:
python
def disemvowel(word):
    vowels = ('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', 'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U')
    return ''.join([letter for letter in word if letter not in vowels])

If your not familiar with this syntax check out this course Python Comprehensions (https://teamtreehouse.com/library/python-comprehensions)
In your code you need to change 
python
for letter in word_list:
 
to
python
for letter in word:

because your code would just remove the lower case letters.

Savannah Logan · Answer

Thank you. That did work, but why? It looks the same in workspace when I was testing... what is it doing differently?

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