On Jun 25, 9:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jun 24, 5:36 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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": > > But doesn't that rely on the underlying character set?
Unless there is a Python implementation using EBCDIC, different underlying character set that differs from ASCII in A..Z and a..z is *not* a practical concern. > It's like > performing math on C char's (maybe that's what the interpreter does > internally?). If that's the case, using 'char.isalpha()' or 'char in > string.letters' or regex's would be better. You should be asking the OP what he really wants ... precisely those letters? alphabetic, in what locale? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
