exercise = """Exercise 6
Ask the user for a string and print out whether this string is a palindrome or not.
(A palindrome is a string that reads the same forwards and backwards.)"""

# this was the first thing I've done, without recalling how easy it is to reverse strings in python
def palindromeOrNot(a):
    new = list(a)
    for i in range(len(new)):
        if new[i] == new[len(new)-1]:
            return(True)
        else:
            return(False)

print(palindromeOrNot(input("give me a word plz\n")))

# this is after considering reversing a string, which clearly makes it concise.
def again(a):
    return(True if a[::-1] == a else False)

print(again(input("give me sumthin\n")))

# PS: one might omit ()s in return and print if the python version at hand is 2.7.x