> 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)
Using python 2.5 the above solution always returned False
for me until the reversed( letters ) iterator was explicitly
coerced into a list ....
return letters == list( reversed( letters ) )
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