In article <mailman.103.1282914852.29448.python-l...@python.org>,
Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> wrote:
>
>def is_palindrom(s):
> s = s.lower()
> return s == s[::-1]
To deal with "real" palindromes such as, "Madam, I'm Adam," you should
probably strip all spaces and punctuation:
# untested
pat = re.compile(r'[a-z]')
def is_palindrome(s):
letters = pat.findall(s.lower())
return letters == reversed(letters)
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