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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Posted by Ibrahim Khan
Ibrahim Khan
3,353 Points

Unable to verify this code, not sure what im doing wrong (function to remove vowel):

def disemvowel(word): vowels = ('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u') try: word_new = word.remove(vowels) return word_new

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    vowels = ('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u')
    try:
        word_new = word.remove(vowels)
    return word_new

1 Answer

Stuart McIntosh
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Stuart McIntosh
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 22,874 Points

Hi there... hope this helps

A few steps to think of :

  1. change the passed in word to a list so that you can use remove
  2. iterate through the list and check if the letter is a vowel
  3. if yes then remove it from the list
  4. join the list back together and return the word 
def disemvowel(word):
    word = list(word.lower())     # create a list from word lower all the chars first
    for letter in word:           # iterate through the list word
        if letter in 'aeiou':           # check if the letter is in the vowel list

I'll let you finish it...