Code RoomPalindrome with deletion
MediumPrep Room Coding #560

Palindrome with deletion

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresEntry–Mid~15 min

Given a string s of lowercase letters, decide whether it can be turned into a palindrome by deleting at most one character. Return True if it can, False otherwise. For example, 'abca' is true: deleting 'b' or 'c' leaves a palindrome. The empty string and single characters already count as palindromes.

Implement
almost_palindrome(s: str) → bool
Examples
in["abca"]outtrue
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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InputExpectedGot
["abca"]truenot run yetsample