range of characters?

[Hans Nowak]

Bud P. Bruegger wrote:

> I suppose there should be an elegant way of getting a range of 
> characters as in
> 
> range('A', 'Z')
> 
> Anyone knows how to do that?  The best I thought of so far is something 
> like
> [chr(i) for i in range(ord('A'), ord('Z')+1)],  but that seems overly 
> verbose..

It's not built-in, but as you already demonstrated, it's easy to write your own 
code...

 >>> def chrange(char1, char2):
...     return [chr(i) for i in range(ord(char1), ord(char2)+1)]
...
 >>> chrange('a', 'd')
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
 >>> chrange('0', '9')
['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9']

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