Re: shorten this: if char in "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz":

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On 24 juin, 20:32, cirfu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if char in "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz":
>
> cant i write something like:
> if char in "[A-Za-z]":
>

Nope. But there are other solutions. Here are two:

# 1
import string

if char in string.letters:
   print "yay"

# 2
import re
exp = re.compile(r'[A-Za-z]')

if exp.match(char):
   print "yay"

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