How to only accept letters in python
I'm having trouble getting my input to accept only a-z and A-Z letters. This is what I came up with Show
However I just come up with an error "re not defined". What do I do :C asked Jun 23, 2015 at 5:46
2 Instead of using regular expressions, I like to use the built-in string methods. One of these is
I'd just write:
answered Jun 23, 2015 at 5:55
jmejme 18.8k5 gold badges38 silver badges39 bronze badges You need to import
Just type the below code at the top of your python script.
Your regex So this answered Jun 23, 2015 at 5:48
Avinash RajAvinash Raj 169k25 gold badges214 silver badges262 bronze badges 7 You could use a set, and string.ascii_letters:
answered Jun 23, 2015 at 6:00
Peter WoodPeter Wood 23.2k5 gold badges58 silver badges94 bronze badges isalpha() works for this requirement.
answered Mar 6, 2021 at 7:03
In this tutorial, we will look at how to keep only letters (extract alphabets) from a string in Python with the help of examples. How to extract only alphabets from a string in Python?You can use a regular expression to extract only letters (alphabets) from a string in Python. You can also iterate over the characters in a string and using the string Let’s look at both the methods with the help of examples – Extract alphabets from a string using regexYou can use the regular expression Let’s look at an example. import re # string with letters, numbers, and special characters s = "[email protected]" # keep only letters res = re.sub(r'[^a-zA-Z]', '', s) print(res) Output: BuckyBarnes You can see that the resulting string contains only letters. Using string isalpha() functionAlternatively, you can use the string
Let’s look at an example. # string with letters, numbers, and special characters s = "[email protected]" # keep only letters res = "" for ch in s: if ch.isalpha(): res += ch print(res) Output: BuckyBarnes The result string contains only letters from the original string. The above code can be reduced to fewer lines using list comprehension. # string with letters, numbers, and special characters s = "[email protected]" # keep only letters res = "".join([ch for ch in s if ch.isalpha()]) print(res) Output: BuckyBarnes We get the same result as above. You might also be interested in –
How do you make input only accept string in Python?input() always returns a string, so you can try these methods:. METHOD 1. Use isalpha(). ... . METHOD 2. Try to convert it to a integer or float, and print the message if it is possible. ... . METHOD 3. Go through the name, character by character, and check if it is a type int (integer) or float.. How do you input letters in Python?Using chr.. Get the input from the user using the input() method.. Declare an empty string to store the alphabets.. Loop through the string: Check whether the char is an alphabet or not using chr. isalpha() method. Add it to the empty string.. Print the resultant string.. How do you accept text in Python?The input() function: Use the input() function to get Python user input from keyboard. Press the enter key after entering the value. The program waits for user input indefinetly, there is no timeout.
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