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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Matt Boylan
Matt Boylan
3,355 Points
Posted by Matt Boylan
Matt Boylan
3,355 Points

Disemvowel not passing, even though I appear to be getting the correct results on testing.

As stated in the title, I'm not exactly sure where I'm going wrong.

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    vowels = "aeiou"
    ourWord = []
    for letter in word:
      ourWord.append(letter)

    for letter in vowels:
        while True:
          try:
              ourWord.remove(letter)
          except ValueError:
              break

    returningWord = "".join(ourWord)
    return returningWord
Tony Martin
Tony Martin
5,570 Points
Tony Martin
Tony Martin
5,570 Points

EDIT: UPPERCASE vowels!!! (just solved this for myself as well reading through the forums. )

As a side note, I believe you can also skip the first for loop you have in favor of: 

ourWord = list(word)

I think... Based on my solution to this problem though, yours is by far better than what I came up with ;)

1 Answer

gyorgyandorka
gyorgyandorka
13,811 Points
gyorgyandorka
gyorgyandorka
13,811 Points

Hi! According to the moderators, this challenge is buggy, I've already asked about it: https://teamtreehouse.com/community/weird-bug-in-disemvowel

(In that post you might also check out the solution, which is more concise, e.g. uses the list() method to construct a list of characters from the input string, without a loop)