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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Douglas Brunson
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Douglas Brunson
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Posted by Douglas Brunson
Douglas Brunson
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My code is not working. I'm using try/except blocks or each of lowercase or uppercase vowels (ten try/except total)

My try/except blocks are withing a while loop that loops until no more vowels are in my_list, where my_list is the word string turned into a list. When I try to check it, I get a message that says it took to long for my code to run.

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    word_list = list(word)
    while 'a' or 'A' or 'e' or 'E' or 'i' or 'I' or 'o' or'O' or 'u' or 'U' in word_list:
        try:
            word_list.remove('a')
        except ValueError:
            pass
        try:
            word_list.remove('A')
        except ValueError:
            pass
        try:
            word_list.remove('e')
        except ValueError:
            pass
        try:
            word_list.remove('E')
        except ValueError:
            pass
        try:
            word_list.remove('i')
        except ValueError:
            pass
        try:
            word_list.remove('I')
        except ValueError:
            pass
        try:
            word_list.remove('o')
        except ValueError:
            pass
        try:
            word_list.remove('O')
        except ValueError:
            pass
        try:
            word_list.remove('u')
        except ValueError:
            pass
        try:
            word_list.remove('U')
        except ValueError:
            pass
    word = []
    for item in word_list:
        word = word + item
    return word