How to remove english alphabets from list in python

Question

I have a list with some English text and another in Hindi . I want to remove all items from a list written in English. How to do it?

An example . How to remove hello from the list L below?

 L = ['मैसेज','खेलना','दारा','hello','मुद्रण'] for i in range(len(L)): print L[i] 

Expected Result:

 मैसेज खेलना दारा मुद्रण 

Answer 1

You can use the isalpha() function

 l = ['मैसेज', 'खेलना', 'दारा', 'hello', 'मुद्रण'] for word in l: if not word.isalpha(): print word 

will give you the result:

 मैसेज खेलना दारा मुद्रण 

Answer 2

How about a simple list comprehension:

 >>> import re >>> i = ['मैसेज','खेलना','दारा','hello','मुद्रण'] >>> [w for w in i if not re.match(r'[AZ]+', w, re.I)] ['मैसेज', 'खेलना', 'दारा', 'मुद्रण'] 

Answer 3

You can use filter with match regular expression:

 import re list(filter(lambda w: not re.match(r'[a-zA-Z]+', w), ['मैसेज','खेलना','दारा','hello','मुद्रण'])) 

Answer 4

You can use the Python regex module.

 import re l=['मैसेज','खेलना','दारा','hello','मुद्रण'] for string in l: if not re.search(r'[a-zA-Z]', string): print(string)