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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

what is wrong with my code

remove method

disemvowel.py
def disemvowel(word):
    vowels=['a','e','i','o','u']
    for item in word.lower():
        if item in vowels:
            word.remove(item)



    return word

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! You're doing fine, but you've failed to take into account what happens to the indexing of an iterable when you use the remove function. My suggestion is to try your code in workspaces and send in the word "Treehouse" and see what you get back. It will contain some vowels as some checks are being skipped entirely.

:bulb: It is generally a bad idea to mutate the thing you're iterating over.

Hope this helps!