str = "abc 123"for c in str: if c.isspace(): print "now is space" if c.isalnum(): print c + " is alnum"
>>> import re>>> patt = re.compile(r'[a-z,A-Z,\d\s]{7}',re.I|re.X)>>> patt.match(str)<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xb7466b10>>>>