Python how to check if input is a letter or character

Question

How can I check if input is a letter or character in Python?

Input should be amount of numbers user wants to check. Then program should check if input given by user be

Answer 1

This question keeps coming up in one form or another. Here's a broader response.

## Code to check if user input is letter, integer, float or string. 

#Prompting user for input.
userInput = input("Please enter a number, character or string: ") 
while not userInput:
    userInput = input("Input cannot be empty. Please enter a number, character or string: ")

#Creating function to check user's input
inputType = '' #See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53584768/python-change-how-do-i-make-local-variable-global
def inputType():
    global inputType
    
def typeCheck():
    global inputType
    try:
        float(userInput) #First check for numeric. If this trips, program will move to except.
        if float(userInput).is_integer() == True: #Checking if integer
            inputType = 'an integer' 
        else:
            inputType = 'a float' #Note: n.0 is considered an integer, not float
    except:
        if len(userInput) == 1: #Strictly speaking, this is not really required. 
            if userInput.isalpha() == True:
                inputType = 'a letter'
            else:
                inputType = 'a special character'
        else:
            inputLength = len(userInput)
            if userInput.isalpha() == True:
                inputType = 'a character string of length ' + str(inputLength)
            elif userInput.isalnum() == True:
                inputType = 'an alphanumeric string of length ' + str(inputLength)
            else:
                inputType = 'a string of length ' + str(inputLength) + ' with at least one special character'

#Calling function         
typeCheck()
print(f"Your input, '{userInput}', is {inputType}.")