Determining if string is palindrome

Question

I wrote two simple functions to determine if a string is a palindrome. I thought they were equivalent, but 2 doesn\'t work. Why is this?

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Answer 1

For strings:

def is_palindrome(s):
    """Return True if a string is a palindrome."""
    return s == s[::-1]

For general iterables (including strings):

def is_palindrome(iterable):
    """Return True if an iterable is a palindrome."""
    if list(iteable) == list(reversed(iterable))