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Python Python Collections (Retired) Lists Redux Disemvoweled

Dee K
Dee K
17,815 Points
Posted by Dee K
Dee K
17,815 Points

My code partially works.

My code appears to work for every vowel except the first one in a word. Can someone help me out with this?

def voweler(x):

    vowels = list('aeiou')
    empty_list = []
    for letter in x:
        empty_list.append(letter)          
        for vowel in vowels:
            if vowel in letter:
                empty_list.remove(vowel)

    print(''.join(empty_list))        
voweler("California, New York, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, Arizona")

1 Answer

John Lindsey
John Lindsey
15,641 Points
John Lindsey
John Lindsey
15,641 Points

The issue is because they are capitalized and it is case sensitive. There are two ways to solve this problem. You can either add the capitalized letters to your vowels list or you can lower all the letters in x when you are comparing it to the vowels (but then use the normal letter when adding it). Also, you can do the test to see if the letter is a vowel before appending it to your list. I only changed this to make it simpler, but the rest of the code below is copied from the original post. Hope this helps. (:

def voweler(x):

    vowels = list('aeiouAEIOU')
    empty_list = []
    for letter in x:
        if letter not in vowels:
            empty_list.append(letter)

    print(''.join(empty_list))
voweler("California, New York, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, Arizona")


# or you could do:

def voweler2(x):

    vowels = list('aeiou')
    empty_list = []
    for letter in x:
        if letter.lower() not in vowels:
            empty_list.append(letter)

    print(''.join(empty_list))
voweler2("California, New York, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, Arizona")