How to check whether a string consists of letters in python: string.isalpha()

python string.isalpha() method

python string isalpha() method checks whether a string consists of only alphabetic characters.

Syntax:

str.isalpha()

Parameters:
The following are detailed parameters:
Not applicable
Return value :
It returns true if all characters in the string are letters and there is at least one character, otherwise it returns false.
For example:

#!/usr/bin/python
str = "this";  # No space & digit in this string
print str.isalpha();
str = "this is string example....wow!!!";
print str.isalpha();

This will output the following results:

True
False

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