Palindrome Hunt

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Domain

Python

Difficulty

medium

Seniority

senior

Problem

Our data quality pipeline flags identifier strings with symmetrical patterns that often indicate copy-paste errors. Write a function called longest_palindrome that returns the longest palindromic substring. If there are ties, return the one starting earliest.

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