How to check for palindrome using Python logic [closed]

Answer 1

print ["Not a palindrome","Is a palindrome"][s == ''.join([s[len(s)-i-1] for i in range(len(s))])]

This is the typical way of writing single line code

Answer 2

Just for the record, and for the ones looking for a more algorithmic way to validate if a given string is palindrome, two ways to achieve the same (using while and for loops):

def is_palindrome(word):

    letters = list(word)    
    is_palindrome = True
    i = 0

    while len(letters) > 0 and is_palindrome:       
        if letters[0] != letters[(len(letters) - 1)]:
            is_palindrome = False
        else:
            letters.pop(0)
            if len(letters) > 0:
                letters.pop((len(letters) - 1))

    return is_palindrome

And....the second one:

def is_palindrome(word):

    letters = list(word)
    is_palindrome = True

    for letter in letters:
        if letter == letters[-1]:
            letters.pop(-1)
        else:
            is_palindrome = False
            break

    return is_palindrome

Answer 3

If the string has an uppercase or non-alphabetic character then the function converts all characters to lowercase and removes all non-alphabetic characters using regex finally it applies palindrome check recursively:

import re

rules = [
    lambda s: any(x.isupper() for x in s),
    lambda s: not s.isalpha()
]


def is_palindrome(s):
    if any(rule(s) for rule in rules):
        s = re.sub(r'[^\w]', '', s).lower()
    if len(s) < 2:
        return True
    if s[0] != s[-1]:
        return False
    return is_palindrome(s[1:-1])


string = 'Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?'

print(is_palindrome(string))

the output is True for the input above.

Answer 4

There is another way by using functions, if you don't want to use reverse

#!/usr/bin/python

A = 'kayak'

def palin(A):

    i = 0
    while (i<=(A.__len__()-1)):
        if (A[A.__len__()-i-1] == A[i]):
            i +=1
        else:
         return False

if palin(A) == False:

    print("Not a Palindrome")

else :

    print ("Palindrome")

Answer 5

#!/usr/bin/python

str = raw_input("Enter a string ")
print "String entered above is %s" %str
strlist = [x for x in str ]
print "Strlist is %s" %strlist
strrev = list(reversed(strlist)) 
print "Strrev is %s" %strrev
if strlist == strrev :
   print "String is palindrome"
else :
   print "String is not palindrome"

Answer 6

def isPalin(checkWord):
    Hsize = len(lst)/2
    seed = 1
    palind=True
    while seed<Hsize+1:
        #print seed,lst[seed-1], lst [-(seed)]
        if(lst[seed-1] != lst [-seed]):
            palind = False
            break
        seed = seed+1
    return palind

lst = 'testset'
print lst, isPalin(lst)    
lst = 'testsest'
print lst, isPalin(lst) 

Output

testset True
testsest False