Valid Palindrome and String Reverse

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Problem

Antra's coding evaluation utility needs to identify whether an input string is a palindrome. Given a string s, return True if it reads the same from left to right and right to left, otherwise return False.

The comparison is exact: preserve character case, whitespace, punctuation, and all other characters. An empty string and a single-character string are palindromes.

Formal Specification

Input: s, a string containing zero or more characters.
Output: A Boolean value. Return True when s equals its reverse, and False otherwise.
Implement the check without modifying the input string.

Constraints

0 <= len(s) <= 10^5
s may contain letters, digits, whitespace, punctuation, or Unicode characters
Comparison is case-sensitive
Non-alphanumeric characters are not ignored

Function Signature

def is_valid_palindrome(s):

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