Check if a string contains a number

Question

Most of the questions I\'ve found are biased on the fact they\'re looking for letters in their numbers, whereas I\'m looking for numbers in what I\'d like to be a numberless

Answer 1

You can use NLTK method for it.

This will find both '1' and 'One' in the text:

import nltk 

def existence_of_numeric_data(text):
    text=nltk.word_tokenize(text)
    pos = nltk.pos_tag(text)
    count = 0
    for i in range(len(pos)):
        word , pos_tag = pos[i]
        if pos_tag == 'CD':
            return True
    return False

existence_of_numeric_data('We are going out. Just five you and me.')