Re: Simple I/O problem can't get solved

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On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 19:07:59 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
>> Combining these modifications:
>>
>> for line in f:
>>     word = line.strip()
>>     if is_palindrome.is_palindrome(word):
>>         print word
>
>Minor quibble: I wouldn't use the name 'word' here, unless you're
>expecting the file to consist of one-word lines (such as DICTOT.DIC
>from old PMMail). For detecting phrase/sentence palindromes, I'd keep
>the name 'line'.
>
	There's also the matter of whether one is looking for strict
palindromes -- where spacing is included (but not letter case)

Able was I ere I saw Elba

or a looser definition where only the letters are involved in the
determination (again ignore case and punctuation, but also ignore the
spaces between words)

Madam I'm Adam
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Simple I/O problem can't get solved nickgan.sps@windowslive.com - 2013-06-21 01:57 -0700
  Re: Simple I/O problem can't get solved Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-06-21 12:11 +0300
  Re: Simple I/O problem can't get solved Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-06-21 11:15 +0200
    Re: Simple I/O problem can't get solved nickgan.sps@windowslive.com - 2013-06-21 02:20 -0700
  Re: Simple I/O problem can't get solved Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-22 19:07 +1000
  Re: Simple I/O problem can't get solved Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-06-22 12:11 +0200
  Re: Simple I/O problem can't get solved Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-06-22 12:58 -0400

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