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I am making a program that requires me to test whether a certain character in a string is capital. I was wondering if there was anyway I could do this like:

string is A-Z

That would determine whether the string is any letter from A to Z
Aug 20 '07 #1
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ilikepython
844 Expert 512MB
I am making a program that requires me to test whether a certain character in a string is capital. I was wondering if there was anyway I could do this like:

string is A-Z

That would determine whether the string is any letter from A to Z
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  1. >>> import string
  2. >>> 'g' in string.lowercase
  3. True
  4. >>> 'D' in string.lowercase
  5. False
  6.  
Aug 20 '07 #2
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  1. >>> import string
  2. >>> 'g' in string.lowercase
  3. True
  4. >>> 'D' in string.lowercase
  5. False
  6.  
Okay thanks, but is there a way to determine whether a letter is a vowel or not?
kinda like string=['a','e','i','o','u']
Aug 20 '07 #3
ilikepython
844 Expert 512MB
Okay thanks, but is there a way to determine whether a letter is a vowel or not?
kinda like string=['a','e','i','o','u']
Well...
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  1. >>> vowels = "aeiou"
  2. >>> 'e' in vowels
  3. True
  4. >>> 'f' in vowels
  5. False
  6.  
Aug 20 '07 #4
Well...
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  1. >>> vowels = "aeiou"
  2. >>> 'e' in vowels
  3. True
  4. >>> 'f' in vowels
  5. False
  6.  
Okay that makes sense now. But is there anyway to make it like a to z without typing each letter?
Aug 20 '07 #5
bartonc
6,596 Expert 4TB
Okay that makes sense now. But is there anyway to make it like a to z without typing each letter?
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  1. >>> from string import letters
  2. >>> "B" in letters
  3. True
  4. >>> 
Aug 20 '07 #6
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  1. >>> from string import letters
  2. >>> "B" in letters
  3. True
  4. >>> 
Okay excellent, thanks.
Aug 20 '07 #7
ghostdog74
511 Expert 256MB
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  1. >>> "B".isupper()
  2. True
  3. >>> "b".isupper()
  4. False
  5. >>> 
  6.  
Aug 20 '07 #8
bartonc
6,596 Expert 4TB
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  1. >>> "B".isupper()
  2. True
  3. >>> "b".isupper()
  4. False
  5. >>> 
  6.  
Thanks, GD. Strings do have quite a few handy methods hung on them.
I also meant to point out that the string module is useful for the constants defined there, but the functions which are now string methods should not be used.
Aug 20 '07 #9

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