Limiting Python input strings to certain characters and lengths

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Question 1: Restrict to certain characters

You are right, this is easy to solve with regular expressions:

import re

input_str = raw_input("Please provide some info: ")
if not re.match("^[a-z]*$", input_str):
    print "Error! Only letters a-z allowed!"
    sys.exit()

Question 2: Restrict to certain length

As Tim mentioned correctly, you can do this by adapting the regular expression in the first example to only allow a certain number of letters. You can also manually check the length like this:

input_str = raw_input("Please provide some info: ")
if len(input_str) > 15:
    print "Error! Only 15 characters allowed!"
    sys.exit()

Or both in one:

import re

input_str = raw_input("Please provide some info: ")
if not re.match("^[a-z]*$", input_str):
    print "Error! Only letters a-z allowed!"
    sys.exit()
elif len(input_str) > 15:
    print "Error! Only 15 characters allowed!"
    sys.exit()

print "Your input was:", input_str

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