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

I think that you want all words, not characters.

result = re.findall(r"(?i)\b[a-z]+\b", subject)

Explanation:

"
\b       # Assert position at a word boundary
[a-z]    # Match a single character in the range between “a” and “z”
   +        # Between one and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)
\b       # Assert position at a word boundary
"