Extracting only characters from a string in Python

Question

In Python, I want to extract only the characters from a string.

Consider I have the following string,

input = \"{(\'players\',): 24, (\'year\',): 28         


        

Answer 1

You could do it with re, but the string split method doesnt take a regex, it takes a string.

Heres one way to do it with re:

import re
word1 = " ".join(re.findall("[a-zA-Z]+", st))