In Python, how do I check if a string has alphabets or numbers?

Question

If the string has an alphabet or a number, return true. Otherwise, return false.

I have to do this, right?

return re.match('[A-Z0-9]',thestring)

Answer 1

Use thestring.isalnum() method.

>>> '123abc'.isalnum()
True
>>> '123'.isalnum()
True
>>> 'abc'.isalnum()
True
>>> '123#$%abc'.isalnum()
>>> a = '123abc' 
>>> (a.isalnum()) and (not a.isalpha()) and (not a.isnumeric())
True
>>> 

Answer 2

If you want to check if ALL characters are alphanumeric:

• string.isalnum() (as @DrTyrsa pointed out), or
• bool(re.match('[a-z0-9]+$', thestring, re.IGNORECASE))

If you want to check if at least one alphanumeric character is present:

import string
alnum = set(string.letters + string.digits)
len(set(thestring) & alnum) > 0

or

bool(re.search('[a-z0-9]', thestring, re.IGNORECASE))