Q:
Given a string, determine if it is a palindrome, considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring cases.
For example,
"A man, a plan, a canal: Panama"
is a palindrome.
"race a car"
is not a palindrome.
Note:
Have you consider that the string might be empty? This is a good question to ask during an interview.
For the purpose of this problem, we define empty string as valid palindrome.
A:
class Solution(object):
def isPalindrome(self, s):
"""
:type s: str
:rtype: bool
"""
newS = "".join([ch.lower() for ch in s if ch.isalpha() or ch.isdigit()])
return newS[::-1] == newS