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Python

jsdevtom
jsdevtom
16,963 Points
Posted by jsdevtom
jsdevtom
16,963 Points

How can non numbers be removed from lists in Python?

Please note, I do not mean 'check if a string object is a digit' e.g '8'.

The list:

my_list = [5, 2, 1, True, 'abcdefg', 3, False, 4]

What I've tried so far:

# Returns 'AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'isDigit''
my_list = [x for x in my_list if x.isDigit()]

# Returns 'ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'abcdefg''
my_list = [x for x in my_list if int(x)]

I know that in Javascript, the following code would achieve what I want to do:

var my_list = [5, 2, 1, true, 'abcdefg', 3, false, 4]

var filtered = my_list.filter(function(item) {
  return !isNaN(parseFloat(item)) && isFinite(item)
})

console.log(filtered);

Thanks in advance

2 Answers

Idan Melamed
Idan Melamed
16,285 Points
Idan Melamed
Idan Melamed
16,285 Points

Here's how you would do it:

my_list = [5, 2, 1, True, 'abcdefg', 3, False, 4]
my_list =  [x for x in my_list if type(x) == int]
jsdevtom
jsdevtom
16,963 Points
jsdevtom
jsdevtom
16,963 Points

Thanks. I added all numeric tpes to account for all types of numbers as so:

numeric_types = [int, float, complex]

my_list = [5, 2, 1, True, 'abcdefg', 3.5, False, 4]

my_list = [x for x in my_list if type(x) in numeric_types]    # [5, 2, 1, 3.5, 4]
Sahil Sharma
Sahil Sharma
4,791 Points
Sahil Sharma
Sahil Sharma
4,791 Points

isdigit() function returns True or False if there are only numbers in ---> String not for integers themselves, as the elements of my_list contain integers too, so isdigit() returns an error, you can fix that by if str(x).isdigit().

Sahil Sharma
Sahil Sharma
4,791 Points
Sahil Sharma
Sahil Sharma
4,791 Points

Oh, and I think you cannot use isDigit(), instead use isdigit() function calls are case-sensitive.