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

Or if you want all characters regardless of words or empty spaces

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

print q 'SomeString'