Bud P. Bruegger wrote: #- I suppose there should be an elegant way of getting a range #- of characters #- as in #- #- range('A', 'Z') Python 2.2.3 (#1, Jun 18 2003, 16:30:09) [GCC 3.2.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import string >>> string.letters[26:] 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' . Facundo