palindrome

[Abhiram R]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head at hotmail.invalid>
wrote:

> http://www.practicepython.org/exercise/2014/03/12/06-string-lists.html
>
> Here is my answers.  What would make it better?
>
> import random
> str1=""
> letcount=4
> count=0
> abc='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
> while True:
>     for i in range(letcount):
>         a=random.choice(abc)
>         str1+=a
>     print str1
>     count+=1
>     if str1==str1[::-1]:
>         break
>     else:
>         str1=""
> print "Tries= ",count
> print str1
> --
>
> ​

The question asks to get an input from the user and print if it's a
palindrome or not.
It should be just

strA=raw_input()
if strA==strA[::-1]:
    print "Palindrome"
else:
    print "Not"

Right? Am I missing something? Why are you generating random strings and
trying to check for palindromes?​


Thanks
Abhiram R (IRC - abhiii5459_ ; Twitter - https://twitter.com/abhiii5459)