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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Posted by TERENCE KB CHIKORWA
TERENCE KB CHIKORWA
3,456 Points

please help me on this

its not passing

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    vowels = ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u']
    word = letters[]
        try:
            letters[] - ([vowels].upper() + [vowels])
        else:
            pass
    ', '.join(letters) = word
    return word

1 Answer

Nthulane Makgato
PLUS
Nthulane Makgato
Courses Plus Student 19,602 Points
Nthulane Makgato
Nthulane Makgato
Courses Plus Student 19,602 Points

Hi Terence,

I'm not completely sure what's going on in your code but its a decent first stab because you have identified the vowels in list and you're trying to compare the word to the list.

Here are some guiding steps:

  1. Your vowels, include lowercase vowels and upper case ones.
vowels = list('aeiouAEIOU')
  1. Turn the "word" into a list with list(word). This is where you will remove your letters from.
word_list = list(word)

  1. Loop through all the letters in the word with a for loop.

    for letter in word:

  2. In each loop, check that each letter is in vowels. If its in vowels, then remove it.

    if letter in vowels:
            word_list.remove(letter)

At the end, join the remaining letters in the word_list and return them.

I hope this helps.