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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Mikey Ro
Mikey Ro
6,948 Points
Posted by Mikey Ro
Mikey Ro
6,948 Points

Can anyone help me refine my code?

The only way I could solve this was to use a new list to write the non-vowels to. But this would use additional memory - is there a way to better solve this problem?

def disemvowel(word): vowels = ['a','e','i','o','u','A','E','I','O','U'] new_word = [] for i,v in enumerate(word): try: if v not in vowels: new_word.append(v) except ValueError: continue

return ''.join(new_word)

1 Answer

Antonio De Rose
Antonio De Rose
20,885 Points
Antonio De Rose
Antonio De Rose
20,885 Points 
def disemvowel (text):
    vowel = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
    chars = []

    for letter in text:
        if letter.lower() not in vowel:
            chars.append(letter)

    return "".join(chars)

disemvowel('antonio')