import re
def is_isogram(phrase):
scrubbed = "".join(re.findall("[a-zA-Z]", phrase)).lower()
return len(set(scrubbed)) == len(scrubbed)
For this approach, regular expression pattern, also known as a regex, is used to filter the input phrase string.
- In the pattern of
[a-zA-Z]
the brackets are used to define a character set that looks for characters which area
throughz
orA
throughZ
. This essentially matches any characters which are in the English alphabet. The pattern is passed to thefindall()
method to return a list of matched characters. - The result of
findall()
is passed as an argument to thejoin()
method, which is called on an empty string. This makes a string out of the list of matched characters. - The output of
join()
is then chained as the input forlower()
. All of the letters are lowercased so that letters of different cases will become the same letter for comparison purposes, sinceA
anda
are considered to be the same letter. When the filtering and lowercasing is done, the scrubbed variable will be a string having all alphabetic letters lowercased. - A
set
is constructed from the scrubbed string and itslen
is compared with thelen
of the the scrubbed string. Since aset
holds only unique values, the phrase will be an isogram if its number of unique letters is the same as its total number of letters. The function returns whether the number of unique letters equals the total number of letters. - For
Alpha
it would returnFalse
, becausea
is considered to repeatA
, so the number of unique letters inAlpha
is4
, and the total number of letters inAlpha
is5
. - For
Bravo
it would returnTrue
, since the number of unique letters inBravo
is5
, and the total number of letters inBravo
is5
.
4th Dec 2024
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