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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Posted by Joshua Emanuel
Joshua Emanuel
3,270 Points

disemvowel Challenge - Not sure where to start?

Not sure where to start with this challenge? Am I meant to convert this to a list or to a for/in function?

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    word_list = []
    word_list.extend(word)
    word.join(word_list)







    return word

1 Answer

Caleb Newell
Caleb Newell
12,562 Points
Caleb Newell
Caleb Newell
12,562 Points

Yes, you need a for/in function. In this I have the list, and named it vowelslist. And it = all the vowels lowercase, and capitol. Now in the for/in we got: for i in the vowelslist: then we run the if statement: if i (which we defined in the for/in) is in word then word = word.replace the i with '' empty brackets. But this wouldn't work unless we returned the word, which we have at the bottom. 

def disemvowel(word):
  vowelslist = ['a','A','e','E','i','I','o','O','u','U']
  for i in vowelslist:
    if i in word:
      word = word.replace(i, '')
  return word
Joshua Emanuel
Joshua Emanuel
3,270 Points

Thanks for your response, I eventually worked it out in a different way but can't find it again to post it here.