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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Posted by Mduduzi Frederick Dube
Mduduzi Frederick Dube
8,886 Points

Help with disemvowel(word):

The code won't pass please correct. I try running it on visual code, it prints out what I give it , minus the vowels of course. when i paste it on the platform, it raises a Bummer! Try again!

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    '''Removes vowels from a word'''
    word_2 = word.lower()
    word_list = list(word_2)
    for letter in word_list:
        if 'a' in word_list:
            try:
                word_list.remove('a')
            except ValueError:
                print 'No more "a"s'
        if 'e' in word_list:
            try:
                word_list.remove('e')
            except ValueError:
                print 'No more "e"s'
        if 'i' in word_list:
            try:
                word_list.remove('i')
            except ValueError:
                print 'No more "i"s'
        if 'o' in word_list:
            try:
                word_list.remove('o')
            except ValueError:
                print 'No more "o"s'
        if 'u' in word_list:
            try:
                word_list.remove('u')
            except ValueError:
                print 'No more "u"s'


    word = ''.join(word_list)
    return word

1 Answer

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

First, your code shouldn't print anything. It will just confuse the challenge.

Second, you aren't checking for A, E, I, O and U. You are checking for the lowercase aeiou, but you also need to check for the uppercase forms. To Python, "a" and "A" are almost opposite letters! (Not kidding, the Python alphabet is "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" so "A" is almost on the other side of the alphabet)