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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Posted by Tiago Ramos
Tiago Ramos
2,380 Points

I don't think I understand the question.

Can somebody help me? What method should I use?

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    word.append("aeiou")
    return word

1 Answer

Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,118 Points
Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,118 Points

The challenge wants you to create a function that removes vowels from any word that is passed to the function. So disemvowel("Tiago") would return "Tg".

There are several different ways to go about solving this. One possible way would be:

  • Create an empty string
  • Loop over the original word, checking if the current character is a vowel. If it is not, add it to the end of the new string that you created in previous step.
  • Return the new string