I am getting the following error and am not sure how to fix it: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'remove'

Question

Hello,

I am getting the following error and am not sure what is causing it: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'remove'

From the prompt, input "word" is a string, at least from my understanding.

disemvowel.py

def disemvowel(word):
    vowels=['a','A','e','E','i','I','o','O','u','U']
    for item in vowels: 
        word.remove(item)
    return word

Answer 1 · 2018-01-10T02:15:24Z

January 10, 2018 2:15am

the remove method is only available on mutable sequences. strings are immutable, so remove is not a string method.

Answer 2 · 2018-01-10T02:43:06Z

January 10, 2018 2:43am

Thank you.

Answer 3 · 2018-08-11T15:52:57Z

August 11, 2018 3:52pm

def disemvowel(word): new_word = word vowels = ('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u') for x in word.lower(): if x in vowels: new_word = new_word.remove(x, "")

return new_word

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