Python String isalpha() Method



Python String isalpha() Method

Python String isalpha() method is a built-in method used for string handling. The isalpha() methods returns “True” if all characters in the string are alphabets, Otherwise, It returns “False”.  This function is used to check if the argument includes only alphabet characters (mentioned below).

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Syntax:

string.isalpha()

Parameters:

isalpha() does not take any parameters

Returns:

  • True: If all characters in the string are alphabet.
  • False: If the string contains 1 or more non-alphabets.

Errors and Exceptions:

  1. It contains no arguments, therefore an error occurs if a parameter is passed
  2. Both uppercase and lowercase alphabets return “True”
  3. Space is not considered to be the alphabet, therefore it returns “False”

Examples

Input : string = 'Ayush'
Output : True

Input : string = 'Ayush Saxena'
Output : False

Input : string = 'Ayush0212'
Output : False

Example 1: Working of isalpha()

# Python code for implementation of isalpha()
  
# checking for alphabets
string = 'Ayush'
print(string.isalpha())
  
string = 'Ayush0212'
print(string.isalpha())
  
# checking if space is an alphabet
string = 'Ayush Saxena'
print( string.isalpha())

Output:

True
False
False

Example 2: Practical Application

Given a string in python, count number of alphabets in the string and print the alphabets.

Input : string = 'Ayush Saxena'
Output : 11
         AyushSaxena

Input : string = 'Ayush0212'
Output : 5
         Ayush

Algorithm:

  1. Initialize a new string and variable counter to 0.
  2. Traverse the given string character by character upto its length, check if character is an alphabet.
  3. If it is an alphabet, increment the counter by 1 and add it to a the new string, else traverse to the next character.
  4. Print the value of the counter and the new string.
# Python program to illustrate
# counting number of alphabets 
# using isalpha()
 
# Given string
string='Ayush Saxena'
count=0
 
# Initialising new strings
newstring1 =""
newstring2 =""
 
# Iterating the string and checking for alphabets
# Incrementing the counter if an alphabet is found
# Finally printing the count
for a in string:
    if (a.isalpha()) == True:
        count+=1
        newstring1+=a
print(count)
print(newstring1)
 
# Given string
string='Ayush0212'
count=0
for a in string:
    if (a.isalpha()) == True:
        count+=1
        newstring2+=a
print(count)
print(newstring2)

Output: 

11
AyushSaxena
5
Ayush

 

Last Updated on October 28, 2021 by admin

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