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 can take the approach of iterating through the string, and using the isalpha function to determine if it's a alpha character or not. If it is you can append it to the output string.

a = "Some57 996S/tr::--!!ing"
q = ""
for i in a:
    if i.isalpha():
        q = "".join([q,i])