The isspace Method in Python: Checking a String for Whitespace Characters

Returns True or False, indicating whether a string contains only whitespace characters.

isspace()¶

Returns True if the string contains characters and all of them are whitespace; otherwise, returns False.

'  '.isspace()  # True
'\n'.isspace()  # True
'\t'.isspace()  # True
' '.isspace()  # True (OGHAM SPACE MARK)
''.isspace()  # False
'!@#'.isspace()  # False
'abc'.isspace()  # False
'123'.isspace()  # False
'abc123'.isspace()  # False

Whitespace characters are Unicode characters from the Other or Separator category, as well as those with a bidirectional property value of WS, B, or S.