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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Vidhya Sagar
Vidhya Sagar
1,568 Points
Posted by Vidhya Sagar
Vidhya Sagar
1,568 Points

Removing vowels .

Code works fine in Workspaces, If i am doing something wrong please point it out .

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    vowel_list=list("aeiou")
    word=list(word.lower())
    for vowel in vowel_list:
        while True:
            try:
                word.remove(vowel)
            except:
                break
    output="".join(word)  

    return output

2 Answers

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

The challenge expects you to remove both lowercase and uppercase vowels.

:point_right: Your program seems to only remove lowercase vowels.

In other words, good work making your program! :+1:

I hope this helps. :grin:

~Alex

Vidhya Sagar
Vidhya Sagar
1,568 Points
Vidhya Sagar
Vidhya Sagar
1,568 Points

Yeah, but i made all the letters in the word lower case so all the vowels in the word will also be lowercase right ? Check out this line 

word=list(word.lower())
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

No, the challenge doesn't want you to return a lowercase string!

For example, If I input "PineappleApple", the code challenge wants the output to be "Pnpplppl", not "pnpplppl"!

You shouldn't lowercase the entire string at the beginning. It might affect the output to be all lowercase!

To fix this, I would remove the .lower() part from word = list(word.lower()) and add all the uppercase vowels to the vowel_list.

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

No problem :)