From b6939de24738ecfbb9f09ae872f37e24b1cfec44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: grizax <ndbfoster@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:50:32 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] up

---
 palindrome.py | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 palindrome.py

diff --git a/palindrome.py b/palindrome.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..148c171
--- /dev/null
+++ b/palindrome.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+'''
+Still needs closure, output, and prints. Needs To Use "is a palindrome" and "is not a palindrome" at closure
+
+Could use the following for normalize:
+
+def remove(s):
+        sentence = re.sub(r'[^A-Za-z]', '',sentence)
+        return sentence
+'''
+
+
+
+sentence = input("Please enter your sentence or sentences: ")
+
+print("Removing characters. Lowering cases...")
+
+def overseer(s):
+
+    def normalizing(s):
+        """converting characters to ascii and alphanumeric letters"""
+        return u"".join(i if isPlainASCIIAlphaNum(i) else '' for i in s)
+        #could use re.sub here
+
+    def lowering_case(s):
+        return s.lower()
+
+    def palindrome(s):
+        if len(s) <= 1:
+            return True
+        else:
+            boolean = s[0] == s[-1] and palindrome(s[1:-1])
+            return(boolean)
+
+    return palindrome(normalize(s))
+
+return sentence

From adabd147a7985e3593c5169224bad63b4506ca44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Foster <ndbfoster@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 16:12:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] refactored palindrome app

---
 palindrome.py | 44 ++++++++++++++++----------------------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/palindrome.py b/palindrome.py
index 148c171..94bee6a 100644
--- a/palindrome.py
+++ b/palindrome.py
@@ -1,36 +1,24 @@
-'''
-Still needs closure, output, and prints. Needs To Use "is a palindrome" and "is not a palindrome" at closure
+import re
 
-Could use the following for normalize:
+def normalizing(user_string):
+    """Removes all nonalpha characters and converts all letters to lowercase"""
+    search_string = re.compile("[^A-Za-z]")
+    return re.sub(search_string, '', user_string).lower()
 
-def remove(s):
-        sentence = re.sub(r'[^A-Za-z]', '',sentence)
-        return sentence
-'''
 
+def palindrome(s):
+    """Function that determines if the string is a palindrome"""
+    if len(s) <= 1:
+        return True
+    else:
+        boolean = s[0] == s[-1] and palindrome(s[1:-1])
+        return(boolean)
 
 
 sentence = input("Please enter your sentence or sentences: ")
 
-print("Removing characters. Lowering cases...")
 
-def overseer(s):
-
-    def normalizing(s):
-        """converting characters to ascii and alphanumeric letters"""
-        return u"".join(i if isPlainASCIIAlphaNum(i) else '' for i in s)
-        #could use re.sub here
-
-    def lowering_case(s):
-        return s.lower()
-
-    def palindrome(s):
-        if len(s) <= 1:
-            return True
-        else:
-            boolean = s[0] == s[-1] and palindrome(s[1:-1])
-            return(boolean)
-
-    return palindrome(normalize(s))
-
-return sentence
+if palindrome(normalizing(sentence)):
+    print("That is a palindrome")
+else:
+    print("That is not a palindrome")

From 027449e63015f8b271a40cafb5a0e230d0c837cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Foster <ndbfoster@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 16:14:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] pass pep8 and pyflakes tests

---
 palindrome.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/palindrome.py b/palindrome.py
index 94bee6a..66f69dc 100644
--- a/palindrome.py
+++ b/palindrome.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import re
 
+
 def normalizing(user_string):
     """Removes all nonalpha characters and converts all letters to lowercase"""
     search_string = re.compile("[^A-Za-z]")