Count total number of alphabets, digits and special characters using python

In this article we count the occurrences of letters, digits and special characters in a string using python

Example

We use isalpha() to check if all the characters in the text are letters, if they are a variable called letter is incremented

We use isdigit() to check if all the characters in the text are digits, if they are a variable called number is incremented

Otherwise its a special character then we increment the special variable

# Count letters numbers and Special Characters in a String
myString = input("Please Enter your String : ")
letter = number = special = 0

for i in range(len(myString)):
    if(myString[i].isalpha()):
        letter = letter + 1
    elif(myString[i].isdigit()):
        number = number + 1
    else:
        special = special + 1
        
print("\nTotal Number of letters in this String :  ", letter)
print("Total Number of numbers in this String :  ", number)
print("Total Number of Special Characters in this String :  ", special)

When you run this you will see something like this

>>> %Run countcharstring.py
Please Enter your String : This is 1 test string with 2 or more characters !!

Total Number of letters in this String :   36
Total Number of numbers in this String :   2
Total Number of Special Characters in this String :   12