title: Python reverse() for palindromes
body: <p>I'm just getting started in python, and I'm trying to test a user-entered string as a palindrome. My code is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>x=input('Please insert a word')
  y=reversed(x)
  if x==y:
      print('Is a palindrome')
  else:
      print('Is not a palindrome')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This always returns false because y becomes something like <code>&lt;reversed object at 0x00E16EF0&gt;</code> instead of the reversed string.
  What am I being ignorant about? How would you go about coding this problem?</p>