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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Removing Items From A List

gabrieL faurE
gabrieL faurE
1,697 Points
Posted by gabrieL faurE
gabrieL faurE
1,697 Points

disemvowel challenge

Hi i allready did the disemvowel challenge, but with another method, i don know why with this code i cant remove the last "e"

    word ="bUVOnEe"
    def disemvowel(word):
        l=len(word)
        print(l)
        word=list(word)
        a=0
        while a <=l:
            try:
               if word[a] in ["a","e","i","o","u","A","E","I","O","U"]:
                    del word[a]
                    a+=1
                else:
                    a+=1
            except IndexError:
                a+=1

        print(word)
    disemvowel(word)

1 Answer

gabrieL faurE
gabrieL faurE
1,697 Points
gabrieL faurE
gabrieL faurE
1,697 Points

ok got it 

def disemvowel3(word):
    l = len(word)
    word = list(word)
    word2 = word
    print(word)
    vocals = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u", "A", "E", "I", "O", "U"]
    a = 0
    b = 0
    while a <= l:
        print("a = {}".format(a))
        try:
            if word[a] in vocals:
                del word2[a]
                print("delete {}".format(a))
                print(word2)


            else:
                print("els{}".format(a))
                a += 1
        except:
            print("ex {}".format(a))
            a += 1
Justin Henley
Justin Henley
2,968 Points
Justin Henley
Justin Henley
2,968 Points

Can you please explain to me this code. I looked through it trying to understand, but am struggling. I copied and tried running it and it returned a bunch of seemingly nonsensical values