shorten this: if char in "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz":

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Let me post another one, and longer:
> 
>  if ord(somechar) in range(ord('A'), ord('Z') + 1) + range(ord('a'),
>  ord('z') + 1):
>      ...

That is very inefficient!  Every time it is run it creates two lists
then joins them then throws the whole lot away!

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