Given a string, determine if it is a palindrome, considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring cases.ide
For example,
"A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" is a palindrome.
"race a car" is not a palindrome.this
Note:
Have you consider that the string might be empty? This is a good question to ask during an interview.code
For the purpose of this problem, we define empty string as valid palindrome.ip
class Solution: # @param s, a string # @return a boolean def isPalindrome(self, s): if s == '': return True s = s.strip().lower() t = '' for i in s: if (i <= '9' and i >= '0') or (i <= 'z' and i >= 'a'): t += i l = len(t) for i in range(l/2): if t[i] != t[l-i-1]: return False return True