Can I make a code in python that ignores special characters such as commas, spaces, exclamation points, etc?

Question

I want to create a code that will return \"true\" (if I type in a palindrome regardless of case or if there are special characters in it), and \"false\" otherwise. The code I ha

Answer 1

If you just want to exclude punctuation and spaces you can use str.translate:

from string import punctuation

d = {k: None for k in punctuation}
d[" "] = None

def is_palindrome(my_str):
    trans = str.maketrans(d)
    my_str = my_str.translate(trans).casefold()
    return my_str == my_str[::-1]