Making a program to detect if a word is a palindrome (ignoring capitalization)

Question

I have trouble making this program because I don't know how to make it so the program will ignore capitalization. I used .lower but I think I'm inserting it wrong.

word=input("Give me a word to detect if it is a palindrome")
word=str(word)

if word.lower[::-1]=word :
    print("That's a palindrome")
else:
    print("Sorry this isn't a palindrome")

You aren't checking if the words are equal to each other. One equal is setting a value to a variable, which is impossible. You need two equals instead — 12944qwerty, May 10 '21 at 15:42

Rahil Kadakia · Answer 1 · 2021-05-10T15:47:33.023

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Try this:

word=input("Give me a word to detect if it is a palindrome: ")
word_list = word.split()
for i in word_list:
   if i.lower()[::-1]==i.lower() and len(i) > 1:
      print("That's a palindrome")
   else:
      print("Sorry this isn't a palindrome")

This will detect all palindromes and if you want only one word as input, remove the for loop.

edited May 10 '21 at 15:47

answered May 10 '21 at 15:45

Rahil Kadakia

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Why ask for a single word and then split that word into... words? – MisterMiyagi May 10 '21 at 15:47
I did mention that if he needs a single word input he can get rid of the for loop and use word input instead – Rahil Kadakia May 10 '21 at 18:43

Making a program to detect if a word is a palindrome (ignoring capitalization)

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