Python quesiton

[Jordan Katz]

Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:

> On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Mark Szidik wrote:
> > Is there a simple way to test a string to see if it holds numeric
> > characters in python?   I can't seem to find anything simple.
> 
> *whips out the sledgehammer that is Python and prepares to hammer
> out some code...*
[snip solution w/regexps]

Here's a way to do it without using regular expressions.  The code
uses string.digits, which I believe was defined for this purpose:

def with_numbers(s):
  import string
  for c in s:
    if c in string.digits:
      return 1
  return 0

>>> with_numbers('hello')
0
>>> with_numbers('R2D2') 
1
>>> with_numbers('_!#$%$##@')
0

Hope this helps. 
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