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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Hrithik Sharma
Hrithik Sharma
6,090 Points
Posted by Hrithik Sharma
Hrithik Sharma
6,090 Points

What's wrong in my code?

i don't get it i tried this code in my code editor and it worked all the time and it saying "Hmm, got back letters I wasn't expecting! Called disemvowel('OoyMOeF') and expected 'yMF'. Got back None". What does it want

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    word = list(word)
    vowels = list("aeiouAEIOU")
    for vowel in vowels:
        try:
            word.remove(vowel)
        except ValueError:
            pass
    print("".join(word))

disemvowel("azI")

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

The instructions say the the function "takes a single word as a parameter and then returns that word at the end.", but right now the code doesn't return anything. And for the purpose of the challenge, you won't need to use "print". So use a "return" instead of "print" for the final result.

Also, the "remove" function only removes the first matching item. If there is more than one of the same vowel in a word, you'll need to remove them all to meet the challenge requirements.