Question

I’m just a newbie on Python.
I have this algorithm to see is a word is a palindrome or not.

def isPalindrome(s):

    def toChars(s):
        s = s.lower()
        ans = ''
        for c in s:
            if c in 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz':
                ans = ans + c
        return ans

    def isPal(s):
        if len(s) <= 1:
            return True
        else:
            return s[0] == s[-1] and isPal(s[1:-1])

    return isPal(toChars(s))

And I want to implement something like this:

s=str(raw_input('Enter a word with quotes: '))

I want to be asked for entering a word, because now, the only way to run my code is to call it in a shell.

P.S.: Sorry for my English.

Answer 1

The following will do it (without quotes — I am not sure why you’d want them):

s = raw_input('Enter a word: ')
print isPalindrome(s)