How to remove english alphabets from list in python

Question

I have a list with some English text while other in Hindi. I want to remove all elements from list written in English. How to achieve that?

Example: How to remove hello from list L below?

L = ['मैसेज','खेलना','दारा','hello','मुद्रण']  

for i in range(len(L)):    
    print L[i]

Expected Output:

मैसेज    
खेलना    
दारा    
मुद्रण

Sweepings

Answer 1

You can use 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

Eumenides

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'[A-Z]+', w, re.I)]
['मैसेज', 'खेलना', 'दारा', 'मुद्रण']

Fiber

Answer 3

You can use filter with regex match:

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

Cabrilla

Answer 4

You can use Python's regular expression module.

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

Whirly