[Tutor] Finding palindromes in a list

[Dave Angel]

On 06/08/2012 09:01 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Mike Nickey <mnickey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> def compareElements(wordList):
>>    for item in wordList():
>>        if item == item.reversed():
>>            print item
>>        else:
>>            next(item)
>>
>>
> reversed() is not a string method.  To reverse a string, try something like
> this:
>
>> if item == item[::-1]
>>
>


Also next(item) is useless and probably an error.  You do not need an
else clause there.  the for loop takes care of those details.



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DaveA