my very basic for loop for removing vowels from a text isn't working-CodePudding

I'm doing the CS50P course as my first course in python and in Problem set 2 there was a problem about removing vowels from a given text

I tried doing

Vowels = ["A", "a", "E", "e", "U", "u", "O", "o", "I", "i"]
inputs = input("input: ")
outputs = inputs
for x in Vowels:
    outputs.replace(x, "")
print(f"output: {outputs}")

but it didn't work I've solved the problem in another way but I'm just curious why didn't my first attempt work

CodePudding user response：

The replace function does not actually replace it, it just returns a string with the inputs replaced. So instead, you could write:

Vowels = ["A", "a", "E", "e", "U", "u", "O", "o", "I", "i"]
inputs = input("input: ")
outputs = inputs
for x in Vowels:
    outputs = outputs.replace(x, "")
print(f"output: {outputs}")

CodePudding user response：

You need to reassign the value, after replacing the vowel. So your code will be

outputs = outputs.replace(x, "")

The replace function doesn't modify the original string, instead it returns the copy of modifying string.