Range of characters?

[Mari Mcdade]

David Brady wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I want to iterate over a range of characters, and
> though I have a solution, it "feels wrong"... I think
> (I hope, anyway) that I'm getting along well enough
> with Python that I can tell when I've strayed from the
> Pythonic Way.  What's the best way to do this?
> 
> Suppose, for example, that we want to generate every
> possible name for Python and it's clones, Aython,
> Bython, Cython, etc.  Here is the code I would write
> to do it:
> 
> for c in range(ord('A'), ord('Z')+1):
>     print "%sython" % chr(c)
> 
> It seems to me that flipping back and forth between
> ord and chr, and especially the ord('Z')+1 have a
> hackish smell to them.  Is there a better way?

Your way isn't wrong, but Python can loop over
sequences of characters too, so why not use that:

>>> import string
>>> for c in string.uppercase:
	print "%sython" % (c)
	
Aython
Bython
Cython
...
etc...

You don't need the string module, really, but using the literal 
string "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" seemed a bit ugly. ;-)

HTH,

--Hans