On 4/1/2011 1:55 PM candide said...
How to retrieve the list of all characters defined as alphabetic for the current locale ?
I think this is supposed to work, but not for whatever reason for me when I try to test after changing my locale (but I think that's a centos thing)...
import locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'') import string print string.lowercase I don't see where else this might be for python. However, you can test if something is alpha: >>> val = u'caf' u'\xE9' >>> val.isalpha() True >>> ... and check its unicode category >>> import unicodedata >>> unicodedata.category(u'a') 'Ll' # Letter - lower case >>> unicodedata.category(u'A') 'Lu' # Letter - upper case >>> unicodedata.category(u'1') 'Nd' # Number - decimal? >>> unicodedata.category(u'\x01') 'Cc' # HTH, Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
