shorten this: if char in "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz":

[Brian Victor]

cirfu wrote:
> if char in "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz":
>
> cant i write something like:
> if char in "[A-Za-z]":

Either of the following should do what you want, without resorting to
regular expressions:

import string
if char in string.letters:

or

if char.isalpha():

-- 
Brian