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Tobias Sanden
2,324 PointsWhy do I get a Type_Error?
Trying to return the word without the vowels, but not having any success... Any advice on what could be going wrong?
def disemvowel(word):
word=word.upper
list(word)
for letter in word:
if letter=="A" or "E" or "I" or "O" or "U":
word.remove (letter)
return word
2 Answers
Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 PointsThis is the error message I get:
TypeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object is not iterable
So what's happening is you're trying to loop over an object which is actually a function, not a list. How did we get here?
word=word.upper
You're not calling the function with parens (). You're just assigning the function itself to the variable word, rather than assigning the result of the function call. So then later on when you try and loop over it, it's complaining.
Cooper Runstein
11,850 PointsYou've got a few problems. First, consider this little piece of python:
variable = 7
variable == 7 or 3
#True
variable == 6 or 3
#3
variable == 3 or 7
#7
At first, this code seems to be doing what you want it to, but after more testing, it should be clear that you aren't running the correct comparison. You're not actually checking if variable is equal to the second number. What you need to do is:
variable == 7 or variable == 3
#true
variable == 3 or variable == 7
#true
variable == 6 or variable == 3
#false
Finally, you're trying to use a method on the string object that doesn't exist, You never actually changed word to a list, so remove isn't doing anything.