palindrome iteration

[Cousin Stanley]

> To deal with "real" palindromes such as, "Madam, I'm Adam," 
> you should probably strip all spaces and punctuation:
>
> # untested
> pat = re.compile(r'[a-z]')
> def is_palindrome(s):
>     letters = pat.findall(s.lower())
>     return letters == reversed(letters)

  Using python 2.5 the above solution always returned False
  for me until the  reversed( letters )  iterator was explicitly
  coerced into a list .... 

    return letters == list( reversed( letters ) ) 
 

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Stanley C. Kitching
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Phoenix, Arizona