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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Noah Harness
Noah Harness
1,383 Points
Posted by Noah Harness
Noah Harness
1,383 Points

I suck at programming and its making me upset

I don't know how to do this shit.

disemvowel.py 
blank_word = ""
vowels = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
def disemvowel(word):
    for letter in word:
        if letter not in vowels:
            blank_word += letter
            print(blank_word)

1 Answer

Umesh Ravji
Umesh Ravji
42,386 Points
Umesh Ravji
Umesh Ravji
42,386 Points

Hi Noah, you pretty much have the answer there :) You do know how to do it.

vowels = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u", "A", "E", "I", "O", "U"]  # have to include both upper and lower cases
def disemvowel(word):
    blank_word = ""  # better as a local variable inside the function
    for letter in word:
        if letter not in vowels:
            blank_word += letter
    return blank_word  # remember you want to return this, not print it out
SC3 Rocks
SC3 Rocks
33,474 Points

if you want to avoid including capitals and lowercase letters in vowels, you can just check if char.lower() not in vowels:. That way, no matter what the case of char is, it'll still be in the list.