Find the index of the first digit in a string

Question

I have a string like

\"xdtwkeltjwlkejt7wthwk89lk\"

how can I get the index of the first digit in the string?

Answer 1

Here is a better and more flexible way, regex is overkill here.

s = 'xdtwkeltjwlkejt7wthwk89lk'

for i, c in enumerate(s):
    if c.isdigit():
        print(i)
        break

output:

15

To get all digits and their positions, a simple expression will do

>>> [(i, c) for i, c in enumerate('xdtwkeltjwlkejt7wthwk89lk') if c.isdigit()]
[(15, '7'), (21, '8'), (22, '9')]

Or you can create a dict of digit and its last position

>>> {c: i for i, c in enumerate('xdtwkeltjwlkejt7wthwk89lk') if c.isdigit()}
{'9': 22, '8': 21, '7': 15}