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Abhiram R wrote:

> ​Haha. Nice. Although with your length of string and the range you're
> picking from,the chances of you getting a palindrome are (1/24!)  :D ​

Are you sure?

>>> candidates = list(itertools.product(string.ascii_lowercase, repeat=4))
>>> len(candidates)/len([c for c in candidates if c == c[::-1]])
676.0

That looks like one in 26**(length//2)