On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Yves Dorfsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any built in way to generate a list of characters, something
> along the line of range('a'-'z') ?
>
> Right now I am using:
>
> chars = [ chr(l) for l in range(0x30, 0x3a) ] # 0 - 9
> chars += [ chr(l) for l in range(0x41, 0x5b) ] # A - Z
> chars += [ chr(l) for l in range(0x61, 0x7b) ] # a - z
>
> Is there a better, more straight forward way of doing that ?
>>> from string import ascii_letters, digits
>>> chars = ascii_letters + digits
>>> chars
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'
>>>
cheers
James
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