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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Disemvowel

Posted by Gabor Kovacs
Gabor Kovacs
4,874 Points

code challenge disemvowel

Hi! In Thonny it's working, but the code challenge always give me a "Bummer!" or other error message. Any suggestion? Thanks in advance!:)

disemvowel.py 
word = input("Word: ")
def disemvowel(word):
    a = list(word)
    vow = ("a","e","i","o","u","A","E","I","O","U")
    d = 0
    while d < 2:
        for i in a:
            for c in vow:
                if i == c:
                    a.remove(i)
                    d += 1
    word = "".join(a)
    return word

3 Answers

Daniel Schmidt
Daniel Schmidt
9,780 Points

This should work:

def disemvowel(word):
    word_list = list(word)
    for letter in word:
        if letter.lower() in 'aeiou':
            word_list.remove(letter)
    word = "".join(word_list)
    return word
corincraciun
corincraciun
2,235 Points
corincraciun
corincraciun
2,235 Points

Another way to do it is with re.sub predefined python function!

import re


def disemvowel(word):
  return re.sub('[AEIOUaeiou]', '', word)
Bapi Roy
Bapi Roy
14,237 Points
Bapi Roy
Bapi Roy
14,237 Points

def disemvowel(word): vowels = ['a','e','i','o','u', 'A','E','I','O','U']

ret_word = []
for i in word :
    if i not in vowels:
        ret_word.append(i)


return ''.join(ret_word)