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Python List Comprehension: Find numbers in sentence
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nums_in_sentence.py
'''
Get only the numbers in a sentence like 'In 1984 there were 13 instances of a protest with over 1000 people attending'. Result is a list of numbers like [3,4,5]
'''
sentence = 'In 1984 there were 13 instances of a protest with over 1000 people attending'
words = sentence.split()
result = [number for number in words if not number.isalpha() ]
print(result)
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stringone = 'In 1984 there were 13 instances of a protest with over 1000 people attending'

nums = [ k for k in stringone if k.isdigit() ] 
print(nums)

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