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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Simple I/O problem can't get solved
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:58:24 -0400
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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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