Disemvowel Challenge

Question

I don't want to add upper case to my vowel tuple. How do I make this check? I've tried writing an if for letter.upper() but can't seem get anything working. Suggestions?
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Alexander Davison · Accepted Answer

This:
python
def disemvowel(word):
    vowels = ("a", "e", "i", "o", "u")
    new_word_chars = list(word)
    for letter in vowels:
        while letter in new_word_chars:
            new_word_chars.remove(letter)
            new_word_chars.remove(letter.upper())
    newWord = "".join(new_word_chars)
    word = newWord
    return word

Doesn't work due to the check in the while loop for only the lowercase letters.
Try instead:
python
def disemvowel(word):
    vowels = ("a", "e", "i", "o", "u")
    new_word_chars = list(word)
    for letter in vowels:
        while letter in new_word_chars:
            new_word_chars.remove(letter)
        while letter.upper() in new_word_chars:
            new_word_chars.remove(letter.upper())
    newWord = "".join(new_word_chars)
    word = newWord
    return word

(By the way, this solution works, but it is more elegant and clean to write:
python
def disemvowel(string):
    return ''.join([letter for letter in string
                    if letter not in "aeiouAEIOU"])

You can learn about List Comprehensions (https://teamtreehouse.com/library/python-comprehensions) for more info on this more elaborate, but neater syntax.)

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