How to check if a string starts with a number in Python

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to check if a string starts with a number or not in Python.

Using isdigit() method

To check if a string starts with a number, we need to access the string’s first character using slicing syntax [:1] and call an isdigit() method on it.

The isdigit() method returns true if a given character in the string is a number; otherwise, it returns false.

Here is an example:

name = "1sai"
result = name[:1].isdigit()

print(result)

Output:

True