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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Posted by VINAY RAVISHANKAR
VINAY RAVISHANKAR
Courses Plus Student 4,015 Points

Function does not returning any value

I'm just trying to get the value from function "disemvowel", but this function does not returning any value.

can you please check this

disemvowel.py 
word=list(input('Enter your word'))
vowels=["a","e","i","o","u"]
def disemvowel(word):
    for x in word:
        if x in vowels:
            word.remove(x)

    print(word)
    return word
disemvowel(word)

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! It actually does return a value (though it might not be what you want). The problem is that you call the function and pass it whatever you input, but then you don't do anything with the value it returns. It sort of just disappears out into limbo. On your last line, try this:

print(disemvowel(word))

Also, I'm assuming you're running this either in workspaces or your local system as this will likely not be testable inside the challenge.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Joel Sprunger
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Joel Sprunger
Joel Sprunger
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You could execute by using the following...

no_vowels = disemvowel(word) print("The word {}, has no vowels.".format(no_vowels))