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Palindrome Program

EasyPython

Problem

Cognizant Neuro receives user-entered text that may contain spaces, punctuation, and mixed capitalization. Write a function that determines whether the text is a palindrome after normalization.

A normalized palindrome reads identically from left to right and right to left when all non-alphanumeric characters are ignored and uppercase letters are treated as lowercase.

Formal Specification

Implement is_palindrome(text), where text is a string. Return True if its normalized form is a palindrome; otherwise, return False. Letters and digits are considered alphanumeric. Do not modify the original input.

Constraints

  • 1 <= len(text) <= 2 * 10^5
  • text contains printable ASCII characters
  • Letters are compared case-insensitively
  • Non-alphanumeric characters are ignored

Function Signature

def is_palindrome(text):
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