str='A man, a plan, a canal: Panama'
if str == ''.join(reversed(str)):
print ('True')
else:
print ('False')
new_str='race a car'
if str == ''.join(reversed(new_str)):
print ('True')
else:
print ('False')
#in case I remove all punctuation and spaces
str='amanaplanacanalpanama'
if str == ''.join(reversed(str)):
print ('True')
else:
print ('False')
#not sure that this one is correct