Palindrome?

isPalindrome.py

# This is a quick script I wrote to find if a string is a palindrome. 
# I feel like there's probably a more efficient way of doing this, but it works. To my credit, I did this in about 45 minutes.

x = "20200202"

def isPalindrome(str=""):
    if str=="":
        return -1
    elif str[::1] == str:
        return True
    else:
        return False
        
print (isPalindrome(x))

For reverse, you can just use [::-1]. I think it's written in C rather than Python, so it should run way faster.

Thanks!