ANSWER IN PYTHON

Write a regular expression to tell whether a 5-character string is a palindrome, i.e. the reverse is the same as the original string. The string can have any kind of characters, not just letters, but whitespaces are to be ignored for the palindrome check.

Examples of palindromes: 'a1b1a', ' a 1b 1a', '#a?a # '

Assume that there will be a call re.match that will apply your regular expression to a string.