Create is palindrome

is-palindrome.py

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+"""
+A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters that reads the same forward and backward (ignoring spaces, punctuation, and capitalization).
+For example, "radar" and "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!" are palindromes.
+
+Write a function called is_palindrome that takes a string as input and returns True if the string is a palindrome, and False otherwise.
+The function should be case-insensitive and should ignore spaces and non-alphanumeric characters.
+
+Constraints:
+
+The input string will contain only printable ASCII characters.
+The maximum length of the input string will not exceed 10^4.
+During the interview, I would ask you the following questions:
+"""
+
+import re
+
+def is_palindrome(s: str) -> bool:
+    clean_s = re.sub(r"[!@#$%^?/,()!&*]", "", s.lower().replace(" ", ""))
+    stringList = list(clean_s)
+
+    return ''.join(stringList[::-1]) == clean_s
+
+print(is_palindrome("radar"))  # Output: True
+print(is_palindrome("A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!"))  # Output: True
+print(is_palindrome("hello"))  # Output: False
+print(is_palindrome("race a car"))  # Output: False