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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Adriano Junior
Adriano Junior
5,065 Points
Posted by Adriano Junior
Adriano Junior
5,065 Points

DISEMVOWELing in Python Collections

I don't understand why my code is being rejected, in this Code Challenge. They said we could resolve it however we liked. And this works. I really don't see where is the problem. Can someone help?

disemvowel.py 
def remove_all_vowels():
    word = list(input("Write any word you like: "))
    print("Your selected word is now: ", word)
    while True:
        vowel = input("Please insert the vowel you would like to be removed.\n(Vowels = a, e, i, o, u or A, E, I, O, U)\n> ")
        def disemvowel(word):
            try:
                word.remove(vowel)
            except ValueError:
                pass
            return word
        disemvowel(word)
        if vowel.upper() == "NONE":
            print("Your final word, without vowels, is: ", word)
            break
        print("You now have: ", word)
remove_all_vowels()

1 Answer

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,456 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,456 Points

Why doesn't you code work? Well, let's see...

  • Why is your function called remove_all_vowels and not disemvowel?
  • Why are you inputting the word?
  • Why are you printing the result?
  • And a bajillion other reasons...

Read this other post. (You also might want to completely start over.)