Python .isspace()

The .isspace() string method takes in a string and returns True if the entire string is composed of whitespace characters, otherwise False.

Whitespace characters include:

• Space (‘ ‘)
• Horizontal tab (‘\t’)
• Newline (‘\n’)
• Vertical tab (‘\v’)

Syntax

some_str.isspace()

some_str is the string being checked for whitespace.

Example

The example below uses .isspace() to evaluate the string txt:

txt = "   Welcome   "
x = txt.isspace()
print(x)

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The output will look like this:

False

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Codebyte Example

The following example is runnable and checks if my_string consists entirely of whitespace characters:

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