Palindrome Checker

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From the lesson: Python Slicing: Master Indexing for Strings, Lists, and Tuples

Imagine a pizza cut into 8 slices, numbered 0 through 7. You don't always want the whole pizza. Sometimes you want slices 2 through 5. Sometimes you want every other slice. Sometimes you want the last three slices.

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Write a function called is_palindrome(text) that returns True if the text reads the same forwards and backwards, and False otherwise. Use slicing to reverse the string. Convert the text to lowercase first so the check is case-insensitive.

Test it with these calls:

print(is_palindrome('racecar'))
print(is_palindrome('Python'))
print(is_palindrome('Madam'))

def is_palindrome(text):

# Convert to lowercase and check if it equals its reverse

pass

print(is_palindrome('racecar'))

print(is_palindrome('Python'))

print(is_palindrome('Madam'))

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