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🐍 Palindrome Detector
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📖 The mission
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Functions return answers
A function is a tiny machine: it receives inputs, works something out, then returns one answer for the tests to check.
💡 Hint ladder
- Lowercase it first: word.lower()
- word[::-1] reverses a string — compare them!
🧪 Coach checks
- ◯ level is one
- ◯ Anna counts too
- ◯ python is not
- ◯ single letter
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💬 Lowercase it, reverse it, compare. == gives True or False directly.
word = "Anna" low = word.lower() print(low) # anna print(low[::-1]) # anna print(low == low[::-1]) # True
📟 It printed:
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📟 Output
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