Check for a palindrome in python

A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as madam, dad, mum and toot.

There are also numeric palindromes, including date/time stamps using short digits 11/11/11 11:11 and long digits 02/02/2020.

Example 1

mystring = input("Please Enter a string to check : ")
lowerstring = mystring.casefold()  
  
# This string is reverse.  
reversedstring = reversed(lowerstring)  
  
if list(lowerstring) == list(reversedstring):  
   print(lowerstring + " is a palindrome")  
else:  
   print(lowerstring + " is not a palindrome")  

Lets try this example out

>>> %Run palindrome1.py
Please Enter a string to check : madam
madam is a palindrome
>>> %Run palindrome1.py
Please Enter a string to check : madma
madma is not a palindrome

Example 2

mystring=input(("Please Enter a string to check :"))

if(mystring==mystring[::-1]):  
      print(mystring + " is a palindrome") 
else:  
      print(mystring + " is not a palindrome")  

Lets see a test run

>>> %Run palindrome2.py
Please Enter a string to check :madam
madam is a palindrome
>>> %Run palindrome2.py
Please Enter a string to check :madma
madma is not a palindrome

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