word = input('Please enter a word!') punctuations = '''!()-[]{};:'"\,<>./?@#$%^&*_~''' nopunc = '' for i in word: if i not in punctuations: nopunc = nopunc + i def isPallindrome(x): return x == x[::-1] if isPallindrome(nopunc): print('{0} is a pallindrome!'.format(word)) else: print('{0} is not a pallindrome!'.format(word))