Given a string, write a python function to check if it is palindrome or not. A string is said to be palindrome if the reverse of the string is the same as string. For example, “radar” is a palindrome, but “radix” is not a palindrome.

Examples: 

Input : malayalam
Output : Yes

Input : geeks
Output : No

Method #1 

1. Find reverse of string
2. Check if reverse and original are same or not.

# function which return reverse of a string

def isPalindrome(s):
	return s == s[::-1]


# Driver code
s = "malayalam"
ans = isPalindrome(s)

if ans:
	print("Yes")
else:
	print("No")

Output : 

Yes

Iterative Method: This method is contributed by Shariq Raza. Run a loop from starting to length/2 and check the first character to the last character of the string and second to second last one and so on …. If any character mismatches, the string wouldn’t be a palindrome.

Below is the implementation of above approach: 

# function to check string is
# palindrome or not
def isPalindrome(str):

	# Run loop from 0 to len/2
	for i in range(0, int(len(str)/2)):
		if str[i] != str[len(str)-i-1]:
			return False
	return True

# main function
s = "malayalam"
ans = isPalindrome(s)

if (ans):
	print("Yes")
else:
	print("No")

Output: 

Yes

Method using the inbuilt function to reverse a string: This method is contributed by Shariq Raza. In this method, predefined function ‘ ‘.join(reversed(string)) is used to reverse string. 

Below is the implementation of the above approach: 

# function to check string is
# palindrome or not
def isPalindrome(s):
	
	# Using predefined function to
	# reverse to string print(s)
	rev = ''.join(reversed(s))

	# Checking if both string are
	# equal or not
	if (s == rev):
		return True
	return False

# main function
s = "malayalam"
ans = isPalindrome(s)

if (ans):
	print("Yes")
else:
	print("No")

Output: 

Yes

Method using one extra variable: In this method user take a character of string one by one and store in an empty variable. After storing all the character user will compare both the string and check whether it is palindrome or not. 

# Python program to check
# if a string is palindrome
# or not

x = "malayalam"

w = ""
for i in x:
	w = i + w

if (x == w):
	print("Yes")
else:
	print("No")

Output: 

Yes

Method using flag: In this method user compare each character from starting and ending in a for loop and if the character does not match then it will change the status of the flag. Then it will check the status of flag and accordingly and print whether it is a palindrome or not.  

# Python program to check
# if a string is palindrome
# or not
st = 'malayalam'
j = -1
flag = 0
for i in st:
	if i != st[j]:
	j = j - 1
	flag = 1
	break
	j = j - 1
if flag == 1:
	print("NO")
else:
	print("Yes")

Output: 

Yes

Method using recursion: 

This method compares the first and the last element of the string and gives the rest of the substring to a recursive call to itself. 

# Recursive function to check if a
# string is palindrome

def isPalindrome(s):
	
	#to change it the string is similar case
	s = s.lower()
	# length of s
	l = len(s)
	
	# if length is less than 2
	if l < 2:
		return True

	# If s[0] and s[l-1] are equal
	elif s[0] == s[l - 1]:
		
		# Call is pallindrome form substring(1,l-1)
		return isPalindrome(s[1: l - 1])

	else:
		return False

# Driver Code
s = "MalaYaLam"
ans = isPalindrome(s)

if ans:
	print("Yes")

else:
	print("No")

Output

Yes