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I am trying to test if a list of strings are palindromes using list comprehension or slicing. I converted str1 to list using word_list=str1.split(). However, the palindrome test,

word=[w for w in word_list if w[0:9:1]==w[0:9:1][::-1]]

works for only the first word. Since the words have different lengths, I am wondering if there are concise way of writing the code without using common loops?

str1='avallava si padre emirime'
DavidG
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    `word=[w for w in word_list if w==w[::-1]]` ? – Chris_Rands Oct 06 '17 at 11:55
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    Possible duplicate of [How to check for palindrome using Python logic](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17331290/how-to-check-for-palindrome-using-python-logic) – Chris_Rands Oct 06 '17 at 11:58
  • This may not be the best way of testing for palindromes, but I can't reproduce your issue. Running your code I get `word == ['avallava', 'emirime']`. – glibdud Oct 06 '17 at 12:11

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The line below iterates through word_list, keeps the words which are palindromes and stores them as a list.

palindromes = [w for w in word_list if w == w[::-1]]

If world_list = ['avallava', 'si', 'padre', 'emirime'],

then palindromes = ['avallava', 'emirime']

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@Chris_Rands answer solved the problem. word=[w for w in word_list if w==w[::-1]]

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