How can I check if a string only contains letters in Python?

Question

I'm trying to check if a string only contains letters, not digits or symbols.

For example:

>>> only_letters("hello") True >>> only_letters("he7lo") False 

Answer 1

Simple:

if string.isalpha():     print("It's all letters") 

str.isalpha() is only true if all characters in the string are letters:

Return true if all characters in the string are alphabetic and there is at least one character, false otherwise.

Demo:

>>> 'hello'.isalpha() True >>> '42hello'.isalpha() False >>> 'hel lo'.isalpha() False