Thanks man, I really appreciate you taking your time to help me!

Now I just gotta catch up on the whole loopy thingy, I found the official Python documentation for for-loops and while-loops – some good night reading right there!

Man I felt so good about this Python course until this challenge showed up. Back to the drawing board.

Catch you later ;-)

Right again brother. One thing at a time!

Alright, besides the BREAK. Shouldn't this function sorta like a loop? I mean: try this; until the error message, then try the next thing and so on?

Well, yes, you might want to have a loop. I was just pointing out that you don't have one currently.

Break does exactly the opposite of that: it breaks out of the loop. So break requires to be in a loop first. It is the "while" statement that can initialize a loop that continues as long as a certain condition is fulfilled (or endlessly). Also, break is not a function.

Sure thing Steven. I've been at it for hours now and stared blind on my code. Imma try figure that loop doop out!

@Christian Mangeng

soo... a while loop kinda like this?

def disemvowel(word):
    word = []
    word.extend(word.lower())
    while word:
        try:
            word.remove("a")
        except ValueError:
            continue
        try:
            word.remove("e")
        except ValueError:
            continue
        try:
            word.remove("i")
        except ValueError:
            continue
        try:
            word.remove("o")
        except ValueError:
            continue
        try:
            word.remove("u")
        except ValueError:
            return word

The problem is that you need a better way to solve this task. The best way to solve it may be to use a "for" loop and iterating over the single characters of the word, then ask if this letter lowercased is contained in the list of lowercased vowels. If it is, you remove it. I would recommend using the replace() method.

This is what my head is thinking:

get word

remove ("a", "e", "i", "o", "u") from word.lower()
remove ("A", "E", "I", "O", "U") from word.upper()

return word

I know its not Python or any other language for that matter, but it's sorta what I want.

I don't know where to fit that loop?

Try using this in your code. You will be able to do the rest. Take your time to overthink it.

for letter in word:
    if letter.lower() in ("a", "e", "i", "o", "u"):

This is absolutely ridiculous, I mean I appreciate your help Christian(!), but this makes no sense to me what-so-ever, even though I feel this should be simple as pie.

Imma have to take this Python Basic Course from the top!

It may be best for you to review some of the videos, or maybe check the documentation about "for loops". What this code basically does is what i wrote in that earlier comment. You can now use word.replace(letter, "") to replace the letter (if it is a vowel, which is being checked with that "for" loop) with an empty placeheolder (i.e. you remove it).

Bummer, still no luck. Can I ask where the word "letter" came to be? Should it be defined somewher?

def disemvowel(word):
    for letter in word:
        if letter.lower() in ("a", "e", "i", "o", "u"):
            word.replace(letter, "")       
        if letter.upper() in ("A", "E", "I", "O", "U"):
            word.replace(letter, "")
    return word

It could have any name you want. It is the name you give an element of the string (or list), in this case a letter of the word string (see for loops).

You're getting really close.

But ... the replace method doesn't alter the original string. It returns a new string with the alterations. So you need to save the altered version.

Also, since you convert the letters to lowercase to compare with the vowels, you won't need to do it again with uppercase so you can save some code lines.

I'll bet you will get it now.

Oh, darn. I really thought you were going to get it yourself using the hints in this thread. You were nearly there!