linda wrote:
I tried something = input('enter text:').rstrip('\n') as suggested but the problem persists. BTW, the intermediate print commands agree and so are not an issue. The disagreement is in IDLE correctly identifying palindromes and Windows not. I do suspect it may be a trailing '\r' issue. Is there an easy fix or shall I wait for the new Python versions to be released? Thanks for helping.
My apologies -- change the '\n' to '\r' and that will hopefully do the trick.
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