A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters that reads the same forward and backward (ignoring spaces, punctuation, and capitalization). Function to test if a word is a palindrome

is_palindrome.py

def is_palindrome(word):
    """
    Check if a word is a palindrome.
    
    Args:
    word (str): The word to check.
    
    Returns:
    bool: True if the word is a palindrome, otherwise False.
    """
    # Convert the word to lowercase to make the check case-insensitive.
    normalized_word = word.lower()
    
    # Check if the word reads the same forward and backward.
    return normalized_word == normalized_word[::-1]

# Usage
print(is_palindrome("Radar"))  # Should return True
print(is_palindrome("Python"))  # Should return False