Disemvowel can you provide me the perfect code...I'm stack

Question

vowels = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
def disemvowel(word):
   word = word.lower()
   new = ""
   for letter in word:
       if letter in vowels:
           pass
       else:
           new += letter
   return new
w = raw_input("Enter word: ")
print "[INFO] Word without vowel: ", disemvowel(w)
```disemvowel.py
vowels = ["a", "e", "i", "o", " u"]
def disemvowel(word):
    word = word.lower():
    new = " "
    for letter in word:
        if letter in vowels:
            pass
        else:
            new += letter
return new
w = raw_input("Enter word: ")
print "(INFO) word without vowel: ",
disemvowel(w)
```

Philip Schultz · Answer

I see a couple of things. You can declare the vowels list inside the function. Also, you don't want to turn the word into all lowercase letters, you just want to test every lowercase version of each letter. You are changing the state of the word to all lowercase and there is no way to go back and find out what was once uppercase. 
Also, when you declared the new string you have an unnecessary space inside it. 
See the code below. Notice how I'm using the lower.() function in the if statement. You can read the if statement like this - if the lowercase version of this letter is in the list of vowels, then pass otherwise add the letter to the new string. Note when I do it like this it doesn't change the state of the original letter to lowercase, it just test the lowercase version of the letter. 
python
def disemvowel(word):
    vowels = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
    new = ""
    for letter in word:
        if letter.lower() in vowels:
            pass
        else:
            new += letter
    word = new
    return word

Let me know if you have questions and I'll try to answer the best I can.

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Disemvowel can you provide me the perfect code...I'm stack

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Philip Schultz

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