lists code challenge

Question

This is the code challenge
OK, I need you to finish writing a function for me. The function disemvowel takes a single word as a parameter and then returns that word at the end.
I need you to make it so, inside of the function, all of the vowels ("a", "e", "i", "o", and "u") are removed from the word. Solve this however you want, it's totally up to you!
Oh, be sure to look for both uppercase and lowercase vowels!
This how I went about trying to solve the puzzle
a,b,c,d,e='a','e','i','o','u'
x= a,b,c,d,e
def disemvowel(word):
    word=list(word)
    for a in word:
        word.remove(a)
    for b in word:
        word.remove(b)
    for c in word:
        word.remove(c)
    for d in word:
        word.remove(d)
    for e in word:
        word.remove(e)
    return word
```disemvowel.py
This is the code challenge
OK, I need you to finish writing a function for me. The function disemvowel takes a single word as a parameter and then returns that word at the end.
I need you to make it so, inside of the function, all of the vowels ("a", "e", "i", "o", and "u") are removed from the word. Solve this however you want, it's totally up to you!
Oh, be sure to look for both uppercase and lowercase vowels!
This how I went about trying to solve the puzzle
a,b,c,d,e='a','e','i','o','u'
x= a,b,c,d,e
def disemvowel(word):
    word=list(word)
    for a in word:
        word.remove(a)
    for b in word:
        word.remove(b)
    for c in word:
        word.remove(c)
    for d in word:
        word.remove(d)
    for e in word:
        word.remove(e)
    return word
```

Brendan Whiting · Answer

First of all, there's a much more efficient way of creating a list:
Python
vowels = ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u']

As far as the challenge, when you loop through the word with this code:
Python
for a in word:

It's going to loop through every character in the list, and and put that variable into the temporary variable a. Not just the a's are going to show up, all the letters will. You should probably give it a different variable name for clarity.  Maybe:
Python
for letter in word:

Then you'll need some logic to check if that letter is a vowel before you remove it.

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