Implement Palindrome Check | Dataford Interview Questions

As part of a Boston Scientific Gruppe device-label validation utility, determine whether a string is a palindrome. A string is a palindrome when its characters appear in exactly the same order from left to right and right to left. Comparison is case-sensitive, and spaces and punctuation are treated as ordinary characters.

Implement is_palindrome(s) and return True if s is a palindrome, otherwise return False.

Formal Specification

Input: s, a string containing zero or more printable characters.
Output: A boolean indicating whether s is a palindrome.
Do not create a reversed copy of the string unless using the alternative approach.

Constraints

0 <= len(s) <= 10^5
s contains printable characters only
Comparison is case-sensitive
Spaces and punctuation are treated as ordinary characters

Function Signature

def is_palindrome(s):

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