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.
class Solution(object):
def isPalindrome(self, s):
"""
:type s: str
:rtype: bool
"""
import re
s = re.sub(r"W", r"", s.lower())
return s == s[::-1]