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 ## Description
 
-Write a program that asks the user for one or more sentences and then lets the user know if it is a palindrome.
+A program that asks the user for one or more sentences and then lets the user know if it is a palindrome.
 
-## Objectives
-
-### Learning Objectives
-
-After completing this assignment, you should understand:
-
-* Manipulating strings
-* How strings are related to lists
-* Recursion
-
-### Performance Objectives
-
-After completing this assignment, you should be able to:
-
-* Strip characters out of strings
-* Change the case of strings
-* Look at substrings
-
-## Details
+## Assignment Details
 
 ### Deliverables
 
@@ -59,4 +41,4 @@ You may want to use the `re.sub` function to strip out punctuation and spaces. A
 
 * [Palindrome list](http://www.palindromelist.net/).
 * [String type in Python](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#text-sequence-type-str).
-* [Regular expression operations](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html).
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+* [Regular expression operations](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html).
diff --git a/palindrome.py b/palindrome.py
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+import re
+
+text = input("Your text: ")
+regex_text = re.sub(r'[^A-Za-z\s]', "", text).lower()
+backward_text = regex_text[::-1]
+empty_list = []
+text_length = len(regex_text)
+for i in range(text_length):
+    if backward_text[i] == regex_text[i]:
+        empty_list.append(1)
+    else:
+        empty_list.append(0)
+
+if 0 in empty_list:
+    print("is not a palindrome")
+else:
+    print("is a palindrome")
diff --git a/pico.txt b/pico.txt
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+pico nano
diff --git a/test.sh b/test.sh
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+++ b/test.sh
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 describe "palindrome.py: Determines if a text is palindromic"
 
-prog="python palindrome.py"
+prog="python3 palindrome.py"
 
 it_works_for_even_numbers() {
   out="$(echo 'toot' | $prog)"