Check for a palindrome in python

Question

palindrome

Here is the code i have written so far:

string=input(("Enter a string:"))
for char in string:
    print(char)
if(string==string[::-1]):
      print("The string is a palindrome")
else:
      print("Not a palindrome")

Answer 1

To produce the described output, it looks like you'd need to perform character-wise comparison. What you've attempted is a straight-forward comparison of a string with it's reverse. Try this:

string=input(("Enter a string:"))
rev_string = string[::-1]
for i in range(len(string)):
    print (string[i], "--", rev_string[i])
    if string[i].lower() != rev_string[i].lower():
        print("Not a palindrome")
        exit(0)
print("The string is a palindrome")