Python reverse() for palindromes

Question

I'm just getting started in python, and I'm trying to test a user-entered string as a palindrome. My code is:

x=input('Please insert a word')
y=reversed(x)
if x==y:
    print('Is a palindrome')
else:
    print('Is not a palindrome')

This always returns false because y becomes something like <reversed object at 0x00E16EF0> instead of the reversed string. What am I being ignorant about? How would you go about coding this problem?

Answer 1

Try y = x[::-1]. This uses splicing to get the reverse of the string.

reversed(x) returns an iterator for looping over the characters in the string in reverse order, not a string you can directly compare to x.

Answer 2

reversed returns an iterator, which you can make into a string using the join method:

y = ''.join(reversed(x))

Answer 3

For future reference, a lambda from the answers above for quick palindrome check:

isPali = lambda num: str(num) == str(num)[::-1]

example use:

isPali(9009) #returns True

Answer 4

Try this code.

def pal(name):
        sto_1 = []
        for i in name:
                sto_1.append(i)

        sto_2 = []
        for i in sto_1[::-1]:
                sto_2.append(i)

        for i in range(len(name)):
                if sto_1[i] == sto_2[i]:
                        return "".join(sto_1), "".join(sto_2)
                else:
                        return "no luck"

name = raw_input("Enter the word :")
print pal(name)

Answer 5

list(reverse( mystring )) == list( mystring )

or in the case of numbers

list(reverse( str(mystring) )) == list( str(mystring) )

Answer 6

Try this code:

def palindrome(string):
    i = 0 
    while i < len(string):
        if string[i] != string[(len(string) - 1) - i]:
            return False
        i += 1
    return True

print palindrome("hannah")