Python – Remove Non-English characters Strings from List

Last Updated : 02 Sep, 2020

Given a List of Strings, perform removal of all Strings with non-english characters.

Input : test_list = [‘Good| ????’, ‘??Geeks???’]
Output : []
Explanation : Both contain non-English characters
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Input : test_list = [“Gfg”, “Best”]
Output : [“Gfg”, “Best”]
Explanation : Both are valid English words.

Method #1 : Using regex + findall() + list comprehension

In this, we create a regex of unicodes and check for occurrence in String List, extract each String without unicode using findall().

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# Python3 code to demonstrate working of 
# Remove Non-English characters Strings from List
# Using regex + findall() + list comprehension
import re
  
# initializing list
test_list = ['Gfg', 'Good| ????', "for",  '??Geeks???']
  
# printing original list
print("The original list is : " + str(test_list))
  
# using findall() to neglect unicode of Non-English alphabets
res = [idx for idx in test_list if not re.findall("[^\u0000-\u05C0\u2100-\u214F]+", idx)]
  
# printing result 
print("The extracted list : " + str(res))

Method #2 : Using regex + search() + filter() + lambda

In this, we search for only English alphabets in String, and extract only those that have those. We use filter() + lambda to perform the task of passing filter functionality and iteration.

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# Python3 code to demonstrate working of 
# Remove Non-English characters Strings from List
# Using regex + search() + filter() + lambda
import re
  
# initializing list
test_list = ['Gfg', 'Good| ????', "for",  '??Geeks???']
  
# printing original list
print("The original list is : " + str(test_list))
  
# using search() to get only those strings with alphabets
res = list(filter(lambda ele: re.search("[a-zA-Z\s]+", ele) is not None, test_list))
  
# printing result 
print("The extracted list : " + str(res))

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