Generate alphabet?

[Emile van Sebille]

ssecorp wrote:
> In Haskell I can do [1..10] for range(1,11) and ['a'..'z'] for a list
> of the alphabet.
> 
> Is there a way in Python to generate chars?

How about:

def haskellrange(sc,ec):
     if type(sc) is int:
         for ii in range(sc,ec):
             yield ii
     else:
         for ii in range(ord(sc),ord(ec)+1):
             yield chr(ii)


for jj in haskellrange(1,10): jj

for jj in haskellrange('a','z'): jj


Add salt to taste...

Emile