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+Learned about string manipulation.
 # Determine if text is palindromic
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+#Changed
 ## Description
 
 Write a program that asks the user for one or more sentences and then lets the user know if it is a palindrome.
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 * [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).
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+
+palindrome = input("What's your palindrome? ")
+
+
+def check_palindrome(palindrome):
+    # for letter in palindrome:
+    punc = ['.', ',', ':', ';', "'", "_", "!"]
+    for punc_remove in punc:
+        palindrome = palindrome.replace(punc_remove, '')
+    palindrome = palindrome.lower()
+    palindrome_reverse = palindrome[::-1]
+    palindrome_reverse = palindrome_reverse.replace(' ', '')
+    palindrome = palindrome.replace(' ', '')
+    if palindrome == palindrome_reverse:
+        print("is a palindrome")
+        print(palindrome)
+        print(palindrome_reverse)
+    else:
+        print(palindrome)
+        print(palindrome_reverse)
+        print("is not a palindrome")
+
+check_palindrome(palindrome)