Re: Character Sequence Generation

2005-09-23 Thread Jeff Schwab
Pedro Werneck wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:26:58 -0400 > Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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' . > > > If you want arbitrary sequences, you may use somethi

Re: Character Sequence Generation

2005-09-22 Thread Peter Otten
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 re >>> def char_set(a_z, all_chars="".join(map(chr, range(256: ... return re.compile("[%s]" % a_z).findall(all_chars) ... >>>

Re: Character Sequence Generation

2005-09-22 Thread Devan L
Jeff Schwab wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 > > > > abcdefghi

Re: Character Sequence Generation

2005-09-22 Thread Pedro Werneck
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:26:58 -0400 Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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' . If you want arbitrary sequences, you may use something like: >>> [chr(x) for x in xrang

Re: Character Sequence Generation

2005-09-22 Thread Jeff Schwab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 Thanks. Is there a g

Re: Character Sequence Generation

2005-09-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKL

Character Sequence Generation

2005-09-22 Thread Jeff Schwab
What's the best way to generate a sequence of characters in Python? I'm looking for something like this Perl code: 'a' .. 'z' . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list