Yay another challenge down! I had no idea that Demetri Martin had made this poem! pretty impressive.

challenge29.py

# A Palindrome is a sequence that is the same in reverse as it is forward.
# I.e. hannah, 12321.
# Your task is to write a function to determine whether a given string is palindromic or not.

def palTest(string):
    cleanLetters = []
    string = string.lower()
    alpha = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890"
    for i in string:
        if i in alpha:
            cleanLetters.append(i)
    revLetters = cleanLetters
    revLetters.reverse()
    if cleanLetters == revLetters:
        print "Yes this is a palindrome."
    else:
        print "Nope"



f = open('Martin.txt', 'r')
list1 = f.read()
palTest(list1)

Martin.txt

Dammit I’m mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I’m in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level “Mad Dog”.
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I’m a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I’m it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I’d assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
“Sir, I deliver. I’m a dog”
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I’m mad.
Yes this is a palindrome.