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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Podrig Leoghain
Podrig Leoghain
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Posted by Podrig Leoghain
Podrig Leoghain
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I'm done, need help, tried so hard, got so far!

So... what's the deal? I've tried working through it myself. Then went searching on the interwebs. Finally, am trying the community. If this is something simple I will slap myself. If it is yet another bug in the challenges I'm stopping my subscription,

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    vowels = ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u']
    word_disemvowel = ""
    for char in word:
        if char not in vowels:
            word_disemvowel += char
    word = word_disemvowel
    return word

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! Well, don't slap yourself, but you are very very close. Your logic is spot on! But you missed a corner case. No, it's not a bug in the challenge. Take a good look at the very last line of the instructions:

Oh, be sure to look for both uppercase and lowercase vowels!

Your vowels list only contains the lower case of vowel and not the upper case. So if I were to send in "App Store", your code would send back "App Str" because it isn't checking for the uppercase vowels :smiley:

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Podrig Leoghain
Podrig Leoghain
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Podrig Leoghain
Podrig Leoghain
5,094 Points

Well then, I feel like a wee dafty! I did try putting char.lower and stuff like that but it didn't seem to want to work. The funniest thing about learning coding is when you try for like 2 hours and then realise or get told something glaringly obvious! Thank you, Jennifer!