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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Gilang Ilhami
Gilang Ilhami
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Posted by Gilang Ilhami
Gilang Ilhami
12,045 Points

I'm trying to solve the Disemvowel challenge with `try`

I'm trying to solve the challenge using try and except

But it seems there is something that I am missing

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    letters = list(word)
    vowels = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
    for i in vowels:
        upper = i.upper()
        if i in letters or upper in letters:
            try:
                letters.remove(i)
            except ValueError:
                print("No Vowels here")
            return letters
        word = ''.join(letters)
        return word
    return word

2 Answers

james south
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james south
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james south
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james south
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you have three returns, you only need one. the program exits when it hits a return, so it's exiting earlier than is necessary to remove the vowels.

Gilang Ilhami
Gilang Ilhami
12,045 Points
Gilang Ilhami
Gilang Ilhami
12,045 Points

I've tried removing the returns, but it still wont't run

Tom Miller
Tom Miller
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Tom Miller
Tom Miller
2,640 Points

You are testing for lowercase (i) and uppercase (upper) vowels, but only trying to remove the lowercase ones remove.(i) so you could be trying to remove the letter 'e' from the word 'Error'.