On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:02:39 -0400 "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <da...@druid.net> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:49:42 -0400 > "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <da...@druid.net> wrote: > > is_palindrome = lambda x: x == x.lower()[::-1] > > Oops. Simple and wrong. > > is_palindrome = lambda x: x.lower() == x.lower()[::-1]
slightly more efficient I think. is_palindrome = lambda y: (lambda x: x == x[::-1])(y.lower()) -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
