You can solve this using a while loop to repeatedly find and remove the target substring until it no longer exists in the word.
The prompt likely refers to from the CodeHS Python curriculum. This exercise requires you to write a function that removes every instance of a specific "letter" (or substring) from a given word. Correct Python Implementation 7.6 / 10 123...
: If letter is an empty string, the loop would run forever; we return the original word immediately. You can solve this using a while loop
def remove_all_from_string(word, letter): # If the letter to remove is empty, return the original word if letter == "": return word while True: # Find the first occurrence of the letter index = word.find(letter) # If .find() returns -1, the letter is no longer in the string if index == -1: return word # Rebuild the string by skipping the found instance word = word[:index] + word[index + len(letter):] # Example usage: # word = input("Enter word: ") # letter = input("Enter letter to remove: ") # print(remove_all_from_string(word, letter)) Use code with caution. Copied to clipboard Breakdown of the Code Correct Python Implementation : If letter is an
While the CodeHS exercise often requires the manual loop approach above, the simplest way to do this in standard Python is using the .replace() method:
: This method returns the starting index of the first occurrence of letter . If it isn't found, it returns -1 .
: word[:index] takes everything before the letter, and word[index + len(letter):] takes everything after it. Adding them together effectively "deletes" the unwanted part.