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

string.split() doesn't take regular expressions. You want something like:

re.split("[^a-zA-Z]*", "your string")

and to get a string:

" ".join(re.split("[^a-zA-Z]*", "your string"))