Checking if a word is a palindrome

Question

I am writing a function to check if a word is a palindrome

def palidrome(b):
    word = ''.join(reversed(b))
    if b == word:
        return True
    return False


def main():
    so = input("Please enter a matching word")
    come = palidrome(so)
    print(come)

main()

Whatever I put, e.g., 'mom,' 'dad' or 'racecar,' it always outputs False but it should be True.

Answer 1

According to this demo, your code is running fine - however, I noticed your input statement doesn't have a space after it. Are you typing a space before you put your word in? If so, consider the strip() function, which will remove leading and trailing spaces - or just add a space to your input prompt!