Need to improve a programm

[Richard_SS]

The program checks if the input text is palindrome. After checking a text like "Rise to vote, sir." it wont find it as palindrome, even if it is. I need to improve a program so that it could ignore punctuation, spaces,case etc. I should specify a tuple "forbidden", where i place such characters, and use the membreship test to determine whether a character should be removed or not.
All my attempts of improving the program using that way crushed with different types of errors. Help me if u can, please.

Here is the initial version of the program

def reverse(text):
    return text[::-1]

def is_palindrome(text):              
    return text == reverse(text)

something = (input('Input something --> '))

if (is_palindrome(something)):
    print('The text is polyndrom')
else:
    print('The text is not polyndrom')