Character Sequence Generation

[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' .

[mensanator]

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 = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW XYZ'
ascii_lowercase = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
ascii_uppercase = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
digits = '0123456789'
hexdigits = '0123456789abcdefABCDEF'
letters =
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuv. ..\xcd\xce...
lowercase =
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\x83\x9a\x9c\x9e\xaa\xb 5\xba\xd...
octdigits = '01234567'
printable =
'0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTU...
punctuation = '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~'
uppercase =
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\x8a\x8c\x8e\x9f\xc0\xc 1\xc2\xc...
whitespace = '\t\n\x0b\x0c\r '

[Jeff Schwab]

me********@aol.com 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 good way to generate the characters dynamically?

[Devan L]

Jeff Schwab wrote:

me********@aol.com 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 good way to generate the characters dynamically?

''.join([chr(i) for i in range(97,123)])

[Pedro Werneck]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:26:58 -0400
Jeff Schwab <je************@rcn.com> 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 xrange(ord('a'), ord('z') + 1)] ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n',
'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z']
[chr(x) for x in xrange(ord('d'), ord('p') + 1)] ['d', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p']
[chr(x) for x in xrange(ord('A'), ord('Z') + 1)]

['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N',
'O', 'P', 'Q', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z']

etc...

--
Pedro Werneck

[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)
.... for c in char_set("a-f0-9"): print c, ....
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f for c in char_set("\s"): print repr(c),

....
'\t' '\n' '\x0b' '\x0c' '\r' ' '

Peter

[Jeff Schwab]

Pedro Werneck wrote:

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:26:58 -0400
Jeff Schwab <je************@rcn.com> 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 xrange(ord('a'), ord('z') + 1)]
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n',
'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z']

[chr(x) for x in xrange(ord('d'), ord('p') + 1)]
['d', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p']

[chr(x) for x in xrange(ord('A'), ord('Z') + 1)]

['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N',
'O', 'P', 'Q', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z']

etc...

Thanks, that's exactly what I want!

[skip]

David> I realize CSV module has a sniffer but it is something that is
David> limited more or less to delimited files.

Sure. How about:

def sniff(fname):
if open(fname).read(4) == "<xml":
return "xml"
else:
# assume csv - use its sniffer to generate a dialect
return d

Of course, as the number of file formats grows, you'll need to expand the
logic. You can also run the file(1) command and see what it says. I seem
to recall someone asking about the equivalent to file(1) implemented in
Python awhile back.

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