> I'd also love to see string constants implemented some day too
> (like str.whitespace and str.ascii_letters).
You mean like the "string" module provides? :)
>>> import string
>>> print '\n'.join(["%s -> %s" % (s, repr(eval('string.%s' %
s))) for s in dir(string) if isinstance(eval('string.%s' % s),
basestring) and not s.startswith('_')])
ascii_letters ->
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
ascii_lowercase -> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
ascii_uppercase -> 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
digits -> '0123456789'
hexdigits -> '0123456789abcdefABCDEF'
letters -> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
lowercase -> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
octdigits -> '01234567'
printable ->
'0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$
%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>[EMAIL PROTECTED]|}~ \t\n\r\x0b\x0c'
punctuation -> '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>[EMAIL PROTECTED]|}~'
uppercase -> 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
whitespace -> '\t\n\x0b\x0c\r '
>>> string.lowercase
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
(you mentioned liking list comprehensions, so that ugly hack of a
one-liner extracts all the string properties of the "string"
module that don't begin with an underscore)
-tkc
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