How to test characters of a string

[Dave]

It depends on the language I’m using, in Objective C, I’d use isNumeric, just wanted to know what the equivalent is in Python.

If you know the answer why don’t you just tell me and if you don’t, don’t post!


> On 7 Jun 2022, at 22:08, 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com wrote:
> 
> On 2022-06-07 at 21:35:43 +0200,
> Dave <dave at looktowindward.com> wrote:
> 
>> I’m new to Python and have a simple problem that I can’t seem to find
>> the answer.
> 
>> I want to test the first two characters of a string to check if the
>> are numeric (00 to 99) and if so remove the fist three chars from the
>> string.
> 
>> Example: if “05 Trinket” I want “Trinket”, but “Trinket” I still want
>> “Trinket”. I can’t for the life of work out how to do it in Python?
> 
> How would you do it without Python?
> 
> Given that if the string is called x, then x[y] is the y'th character
> (where what you would call "the first character," Python calls "the
> zeroth character"), describe the steps you would take *as a person* (or
> in some other programming language, if you know one) to carry out this
> task.
> 
> Translating that algorithm to Python is the next step.  Perhaps
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html can help.
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