Python palindrome program not working

Question

I\'ve written a simple program in python which checks if the sentence is palindrome. But I can\'t figure out why isn\'t it working. The results is always False. Does anyone know

Answer 1

You're making this way more complicated than it has to be:

def palindrome(sentence):
    sentence = sentence.strip().lower().replace(" ", "")
    return sentence == sentence[::-1]

sentence[::-1] uses string slicing to reverse the characters in the string.

A slightly more verbose solution that shows how the logic of the return statement above works:

def palindrome(sentence):
    sentence = sentence.strip().lower().replace(" ", "")
    if sentence == sentence[::-1]:
        return True
    else:
        return False