Is there a simple function to generate a list like ['a', 'b', 'c', ... 'z']?

[Guest]

Is there a simple function to generate a list like ['a', 'b', 'c', ...
'z']? The range() just can generate the numeric list.

 

[Michael Bentley]

Is there a simple function to generate a list like ['a', 'b', 'c', ...
'z']? The range() just can generate the numeric list.

import string
list(string.lowercase)

 

[Guest]

Is there a simple function to generate a list like ['a', 'b', 'c', ...
'z']? The range() just can generate the numeric list.

There is:
[ chr(i) for i in range(97, 123) ]

Thomas

 

[Guest]

Is there a simple function to generate a list like ['a', 'b', 'c', ...
'z']?   The range() just can generate the numeric list.

import string
list(string.lowercase)

Thanks a lot!

 

[7stud]

Is there a simple function to generate a list like ['a', 'b', 'c', ...
'z']?   The range() just can generate the numeric list.

Not very simple, but how about a list comprehension:

import string

lst = [char for char in string.letters[:26] ]
print lst

 

[Guest]

Is there a simple function to generate a list like ['a', 'b', 'c', ...
'z']?   The range() just can generate the numeric list.

There is:
[ chr(i) for i in range(97, 123) ]

Thomas

Thanks you too! I'm a beginner of python.

 

[martinskou]

map(chr,range(65,91))

/Martin

 

[Duncan Booth]

Is there a simple function to generate a list like ['a', 'b', 'c', ...
'z']? The range() just can generate the numeric list.

import string
list(string.lowercase)

Be careful here. If you change locale that will return all lowercase
letters not just 'a' to 'z'. For example:

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

Is there a simple function to generate a list like ['a', 'b', 'c', ...
'z']?   The range() just can generate the numeric list.

Not very simple, but how about a list comprehension:

import string

lst = [char for char in string.letters[:26] ]
print lst

Anytime you write a list comp like [x for x in thing] that should be a
warning that you shouldn't be writing a list comp.

lst = list(string.letters[:26])

 

[skip]

Thomas> [ chr(i) for i in range(97, 123) ]

Or with fewer magic numbers:

[chr(i) for i in range(ord('a'), ord('z')+1)]

Skip

 

[Michael Bentley]

Is there a simple function to generate a list like ['a', 'b',
'c', ...
'z']? The range() just can generate the numeric list.

import string
list(string.lowercase)

Be careful here. If you change locale that will return all lowercase
letters not just 'a' to 'z'. For example:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzƒšœžªµºßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿ

Thanks, Duncan -- that would have eventually bitten me.