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Check if a string is a palindrome
Compare the cleaned text with its reverse.
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def is_palindrome(text): cleaned = ''.join(c.lower() for c in text if c.isalnum()) return cleaned == cleaned[::-1] print(is_palindrome('A man, a plan, a canal: Panama')) print(is_palindrome('hello'))
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