Python - Readline and compare

Question

Im trying to create a function which reads each line in a file and compares the words with their reverse (palindrome) version ie > (heheh = heheh) & (law = wal) . So when i tried to do that the condition has failed and the function returned an empty list.

CODE

def palindrome_lst():
    lst = []
    with open("words.txt", "r") as f:
        for line in f:
            if line == line[::-1]:
                lst.append(line)
    return lst

print palindrome_lst()

Answer 1

When iterating over the lines in a file, you're getting the line-terminator along with the rest of the line. Id est, you're not comparing "eye" == "eye" , but "eye\\n" == "\\neye" , which is of course false for all words.

Try adding line = line.strip() before the comparison.