Gerrit Holl
> Are you looking for:
> 20:58:42:232:0 >>> def ispalindrome(s):
> 20:58:42:232:0 ... return s == s[::-1]
No. The OP wanted to strip special characters and
normalize case, so that
A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama!
would be allowed as a palindrome.
Andrew
dalke at dalkescientific.com