I've got this method to recognize if there are any special characters in a given string, and it works just fine when the string is one word only such as 'h3llo', it will return True (there are special characters inside my string), but when i add spaces to it (which is what has me struggling because of what i need the code for) it returns True even when there are no special characters in it at all, such as hello how are you, it will return True, because of the spaces. I need to fix my method to ignore the spaces, but I've ran out of ideas. I'd appreciate some help!! Thanks in advance :)

This is my function:

def has_spchar(inputString):
    return any(not char.isalnum() for char in inputString)

CodePudding user response：

def has_spchar(inputString):
    return any(not (char.isalnum() or char.isspace()) for char in inputString)

It might be more efficient, clearer, and easier to modify if you create a set of the characters that are not special and test against that.