99 problems - python - 6

Find out whether a list is a palindrome. A palindrome can be read forward or backward; e.g. (x a m a x).

def is_palindrome(lst):
    return lst == lst[::-1]

The first thing that came to mind was lst == list(reversed(lst)), but that doesn't quite work if the "sequence" you pass in is a string. Besides I hate to pass up an opportunity to use "[::-1]"

I have to admit that using languages like Haskell has made me sensitive to weirdnesses of python that I never really noticed before. For instance the fact that doing list("some string") doesn't return a list of characters but instead a list of strings of length 1. Ugh.