Python .isprintable()

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.isprintable() is a string method that returns a boolean value True if all characters in the string are printable or if it’s empty, and False if any character in the string is non-printable.

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Syntax

mystr.isprintable()

This method is called on a string mystr and returns True if all characters in mystr are printable.

Example

In the following example, .isprintable() is used to find out if all characters in the strings are printable.

str = "Hello World"
str1 = "Hello World\n"
str2 = "@Hello $World"
str3 = "\tHello World"
print(str.isprintable())
print(str1.isprintable())
print(str2.isprintable())
print(str3.isprintable())

The output of the above code will be:

True
False
True
False

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