def isPalindrome(phrase): """take a phrase and convert to all lowercase letters and ignore punctuation marks and whitespaces, if it matches the reverse spelling then it is a palindrome """ phrase_letters = [c for c in phrase.lower() if c.isalpha()] print phrase_letters # test return (phrase_letters == phrase_letters[::-1]) """ phrase1 = "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!" if isPalindrome(phrase1): print '"%s" is a palindrome' % phrase1 else: print '"%s" is not a palindrome' % phrase1 print """ inputPhrase = raw_input("Enter a Sentence") if isPalindrome(inputPhrase): print '"%s" is a palindrome' % inputPhrase else: print '"%s" is not a palindrome' % inputPhrase phrase2 = "Madam in Eden I'm Adam" if isPalindrome(phrase2): print '"%s" is a palindrome' % phrase2 else: print '"%s" is not a palindrome' % phrase2
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