How to remove english alphabets from list in python

Question

I have a list with some English text while other in Hindi. I want to remove all elements from list written in English. How to achieve that?

Example: How to remove hello from list L below?

L = ['मैसेज','खेलना','दारा','hello','मुद्रण']  

for i in range(len(L)):    
    print L[i]

Expected Output:

मैसेज    
खेलना    
दारा    
मुद्रण

Answer 1

You can use isalpha() function

l = ['मैसेज', 'खेलना', 'दारा', 'hello', 'मुद्रण']
for word in l:
    if not word.isalpha():
        print word

will give you the result:

मैसेज
खेलना
दारा
मुद्रण