On Jun 25, 4:32 am, cirfu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if char in "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz": > > cant i write something like: > if char in "[A-Za-z]":
You can write that if you want to, but it's equivalent to if char in "zaZa]-[": i.e. it doesn't do what you want. This gives the same reuslt as your original code, unaffected by locale: if "A" <= char <= "Z" or "a" <= char <= "z": -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list