Still not clear on when to add arguments in parentheses.

Hi Gary

I ran both your examples and they both throw errors, reason being the argument you are passing is not a string. Hence the error you get is word is not defined or abomination is not defined.

def devowel(word):
    word = input("Give me a word to devowel. ")
    vowels = 'aeiou'
    result = ''
    for i in word:
        if i not in vowels: 
            result += i
    print(result)

devowel("abomination") # surround either word or abomination within quotes as you need to pass a string.

In terms of passing arguments, You pass arguments to a function to prevent repeating yourself. Imagine if i wanted to add 2 numbers, I would not say num1= 5+5 and then 20 lines down the code say again num3 = 25 +32. That's where functions come in. I could create a function named add and call it every time i need to add two numbers.

see below

def add(a,b):
    return a + b

#So when ever i need to add two numbers i call  num1=add(5,5) or num3 = add(25,32).

For this example i would not pass arguments as the input function will give you unique inputs from the user every time devowel function is called.

You first example is the best way to write the devowel function

def devowel():
    word = input("Give me a word to devowel. ")
    vowels = 'aeiou'
    result = ''
    for i in word:
        if i not in vowels: 
            result += i
    print(result)

devowel()

hope this helps