Need help with a code challenge that asks to remove any vowels from a word that's used to call that function

Question

The challenge is to create a function with a single word parameter, and to remove any vowels that are withing that word from inside the function and then return the word.

I've attached my code with this post.

It returns for instance "h, l, l" if I pass in "hello", I guess it the code isnt passing the challenge because of the comma in the string?

Thanks for your help!

disemvowel.py

def disemvowel(word):
    my_list = list(word)
    my_vowels = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
    for letter in my_list:
        if letter.lower() in my_vowels:
            my_list.remove(letter)
    string = ", ".join(my_list)
    return string

new_word = "hellO"

disemvowel(new_word)

Answer 1 · 2017-01-29T20:35:25Z

January 29, 2017 8:35pm

You don't need to call the function. (The code challenge does that for you)

You also shouldn't join the string with commas, and you don't need to create a list.

You can solve the challenge like this:

def disemvowel(string):
    result = ""
    for letter in string:
        if letter.lower() not in 'aeiou':
            result += letter
    return result

How it works:

We set the variable result to an empty string so later we can add letters to it.
We iterate though every single letter in the string and set the "temporary" variable's name to letter.
If the letter we are on lowercased isn't in 'aeiou' which are all the vowels, then we add the letter to the result variable.
Finally, after we loop through all the letters in the string, we return the result variable.

I hope this helps. ~Alex

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Need help with a code challenge that asks to remove any vowels from a word that's used to call that function

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