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A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters that reads the same forward and backward (ignoring spaces, punctuation, and capitalization). Function to test if a word is a palindrome
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| def is_palindrome(word): | |
| """ | |
| Check if a word is a palindrome. | |
| Args: | |
| word (str): The word to check. | |
| Returns: | |
| bool: True if the word is a palindrome, otherwise False. | |
| """ | |
| # Convert the word to lowercase to make the check case-insensitive. | |
| normalized_word = word.lower() | |
| # Check if the word reads the same forward and backward. | |
| return normalized_word == normalized_word[::-1] | |
| # Usage | |
| print(is_palindrome("Radar")) # Should return True | |
| print(is_palindrome("Python")) # Should return False |
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