isalpha() String Method in Python with Examples

isalpha() method returns True if the string is alphabetic string otherwise it returns False.

A string is alphabetic if all characters in the string are alphabetic and there is at least one character in the string.

Example 1: isalpha() String Method

message = 'welcome'

if message.isalpha():
    print('"%s" is alphabetic string.' %(message))
else:
    print('"%s" is not alphabetic string.' %(message))

Output

"welcome" to python is alphabetic string.

Example 2: isalpha() String Method

message = 'welcome to python'

if message.isalpha():
    print('"%s" is alphabetic string.' %(message))
else:
    print('"%s" is not alphabetic string.' %(message))

Output

"welcome to python" is not alphabetic string.


Note: this is not alphabetic since there is space in string.

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