Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Q2: Palindromes
Write a function called palindrome which takes a string as parameter and returns
True if the string is a palindrome (meaning it is the same forwards as backwards),
and False otherwise.
Some useful things to remember:
Use the function len to find the length of a string.
To get just a piece of a string, use the slice operator.
For example:
astring = 'hello'
substr = astring[1:-1]
#sets substr to 'ell'
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• Try to make your function correctly identify palindromes that have spaces
(such as 'able was i ere i saw elba')
You can have a look at string.join method here if it could help you.
• string.lower may also be a useful function.
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BE SURE TO TEST WELL! Include multiple test cases, including one where the
word isn't a palindrome, but the first and last letters are equal (such as
"yummy").
It is easiest to do this with a while loop, although there are a few different
ways of structuring such a loop. Think about what conditions need to be met
for a palindrome to be true, and when you can stop testing for one.
(hint: the words ‘ana' and 'anna' are both palindromes; when do we know to
stop checking?)
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Transcribed Image Text:Q2: Palindromes Write a function called palindrome which takes a string as parameter and returns True if the string is a palindrome (meaning it is the same forwards as backwards), and False otherwise. Some useful things to remember: Use the function len to find the length of a string. To get just a piece of a string, use the slice operator. For example: astring = 'hello' substr = astring[1:-1] #sets substr to 'ell' ● Page 4 of 5 • Try to make your function correctly identify palindromes that have spaces (such as 'able was i ere i saw elba') You can have a look at string.join method here if it could help you. • string.lower may also be a useful function. ● BE SURE TO TEST WELL! Include multiple test cases, including one where the word isn't a palindrome, but the first and last letters are equal (such as "yummy"). It is easiest to do this with a while loop, although there are a few different ways of structuring such a loop. Think about what conditions need to be met for a palindrome to be true, and when you can stop testing for one. (hint: the words ‘ana' and 'anna' are both palindromes; when do we know to stop checking?)
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