Jeff Schwab wrote: > What's the best way to generate a sequence of characters in Python? I'm > looking for something like this Perl code: 'a' .. 'z' .
>>> import string >>> print string.ascii_lowercase abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Others: ascii_letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' ascii_lowercase = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' ascii_uppercase = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' digits = '0123456789' hexdigits = '0123456789abcdefABCDEF' letters = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuv...\xcd\xce... lowercase = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\x83\x9a\x9c\x9e\xaa\xb5\xba\xd... octdigits = '01234567' printable = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU... punctuation = '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>[EMAIL PROTECTED]|}~' uppercase = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\x8a\x8c\x8e\x9f\xc0\xc1\xc2\xc... whitespace = '\t\n\x0b\x0c\r ' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list