passes 30/72 tests

NeetCodeRoadmap/Arrays_and_Hashing/125_Valid_Palindrome.py

@@ -1,8 +1,22 @@
+import string
+
 def isPalindrome(s):
     """
     :type s: str
     :rtype: bool
     """
-    
+    # Create a translation table to remove uppercase letters and special characters
+    translation_table = str.maketrans("", "", string.ascii_uppercase + string.punctuation + string.whitespace)
+
+    # Use the translation table to remove uppercase letters and special characters
+    cleaned_string = s.translate(translation_table)
+
+    half = len(cleaned_string)/2
+
+    first = []
+    second = []
+    for i in range(len(half)):
+        
+    return cleaned_string
 
 print(isPalindrome("A man, a plan, a canal: Panama"))