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Discussion on: Daily Challenge #254 - The Vowel Code

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Pedro S

My Python solution:

def encode(st):
    vowel_to_num = {'a': '1', 'e': '2', 'i': '3', 'o': '4', 'u': '5'}
    return ''.join(vowel_to_num.get(char, char) for char in st)

def decode(st):
    num_to_vowel = {'1': 'a', '2': 'e', '3': 'i', '4': 'o', '5': 'u'}
    return ''.join(num_to_vowel.get(char, char) for char in st)

After submitting this to Kata, I learned about the str.translate() method, which would make this much simpler 🧐