print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python

[rzed]

aleax at mac.com (Alex Martelli) wrote in
news:1hue4db.1ifwnsjmhm2pN%aleax at mac.com: 

> js  <ebgssth at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> HI guys,
>> 
>> How do you write Perl's
>> 
>>     print a ... z, A ... Z,  "\n"' in Python
>> 
>> In Python?
> 
> This specific one is easy, though this doesn't generalize:
> 
> import string
> print string.lowercase + string.uppercase
> 
> For the general case, there's no way to avoid calling chr and
> ord, because a string in Python doesn't have a "natural
> successor". So the only issue is how you prefer to hide those
> calls &c (in some class or function) and you already received
> suggestions on that. 
> 

No ord or chr in sight:

# Inclusive character range. 
def pycrange(lo,hi):
    import string
    chars = string.letters + " "
    rstr = ''
    lp = chars.find(lo)
    hp = chars.find(hi)
    if lp < hp:    
        rstr = chars[lp:hp+1]
    return rstr

print pycrange('c','n')


Lame code, though.

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rzed