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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Alejandro Byrne
Alejandro Byrne
2,562 Points
Posted by Alejandro Byrne
Alejandro Byrne
2,562 Points

What am I missing?

I think I have my code figured out, how do I make it remove all upper cases too?

disemvowel.py 
def disemvowel(word):
    word = word.list()
    word.remove('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u')
    return word

1 Answer

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Ok, here's an error list:

:x: .list() sadly isn't a Python function on strings. However, there is a function called list() that take sin a string as am argument!

:x: You can only pass in ONE argument to remove.

:x: Even if you can pass in multiple arguments to remove to call lots of removes, it only will remove the first vowels. Keep in mind that .remove() _only removes the first existence of an element!

Here's a checklist. To fix your program, you should follow these steps :+1:

:white_check_mark: Set word equal to list(word), not word.list().

:white_check_mark: Make a loop to go through all of the elements of the list. If the element is in the list ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', 'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U'] using the in keyword.

:white_check_mark: If the current element is in the vowel list, remove the items with .remove().

I hope this helps. If you need more hints, please reply. Thanks!

I hope this helps. ~Alex