checking for ASCII character

[rm]

Greg Krohn wrote:
> Daniel wrote:
> 
>> Hi, is there a way to check if a letter entered is an uppercase ASCII
>> character?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Daniel
> 
> 
> If you just want to know if a character is uppercase:
> 
> if character.isupper():
>     <some code>
> 
> If it needs to be ASCII, the simplest way is probably:
> 
> if ord(character) in range(65, 91):
>     <some code>
> 
> 
> 
> greg
> 

one could check for ascii by doing:

try :
	character.encode('ascii')
except UnicodeDecodeError :
	ascii = False
else :
	ascii = True

if ascii and character.isupper() :
	pass

or something like it

bye,
rm