Python .isdecimal()

The method .isdecimal() takes a string parameter and returns True if and only if the following two conditions are met:

1. The string is not empty (has at least one character).
2. All of the characters in the string are decimal characters.

Otherwise, .isdecimal() returns False.

A decimal character is a character that represents an integer from 0 to 9.

Syntax

.isdecimal() can be called in two ways:

string_variable.isdecimal()

OR

str.isdecimal(string_variable)

Where string_variable is the string parameter.

Example

print("783".isdecimal())
print("not a decimal".isdecimal())
print(str.isdecimal(""))
print(str.isdecimal("\u0033"))

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The above gives the following output:

True
False
False
True

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Note that the fourth call to .isdecimal() returns True because "\u0033" is the unicode encoding of the decimal character "3".

Codebyte Example

The code below is runnable, change the value of your_string to test the .isdecimal() method.

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