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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Ashikur Rahman
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Ashikur Rahman
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Ashikur Rahman
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Wrote correct code but it's showing error

Hi! I wrote correct code and checked it but it's throwing an error and I can't fix it. could you please help out? Thanks in advance

def disemvowel(word): word = list(word.lower()) vowels = ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'] for letter in vowels: if letter in word: word = word.replace(letter, "") word = "".join(word)

return word

2 Answers

ds1
ds1
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ds1
ds1
7,627 Points

Hi, Ashikur

def disemvowel(word):
    vowel_list = list('aeiou')  #makes a list out of this string of vowels (you don't have to do it this way)
    word_list = list(word)
    good_list = []

    for letter in word_list:
        if letter.lower() not in vowel_list:
            good_list.append(letter)
    word = "".join(good_list)  # joining the list back into a string
    return word
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

The code may not be as "correct" as you think:

Letters that are not removed should remain unchanged, but your code converts all letters to lower case.

Also, you only need to define the function, you won't need to call it or to print anything.