How to scan a string for specific characters in Python?

If you want to check if a given character exists in a string, you can use in. For example,

>>> s = "Hello world"
>>> 'e' in s
True

If you have a list of characters you want to search, you can use Sets. Add these character in the set and use the any function to check if any of these characters exist in the string. For example,

from sets import Set
chars = Set('0123456789$,')
s = "I have 9 cats"
if any((c in chars) for c in s):
    print('Found')
else:
    print('Not Found')

This will give the output:

Found

If you want to check if all of these characters exist in the string, just replace any with all. For example,

from sets import Set
chars = Set('0123456789$,')
s = "I have 9 cats"
if all((c in chars) for c in s):
    print('Found')
else:
    print('Not Found')

This will give the output:

Not Found

Rajendra Dharmkar

Updated on 30-Sep-2019 07:39:01

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