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? 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
