Alphabetics respect to a given locale

[eryksun ()]

On Friday, April 1, 2011 4:55:42 PM UTC-4, candide wrote:
>
> How to retrieve the list of all characters defined as alphabetic for the 
> current locale  ?

Give this a shot:

In [1]: import string

In [2]: print string.letters
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

In [3]: import locale

In [4]: locale.getlocale()
Out[4]: (None, None)

In [5]: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'English_Great Britain')
Out[5]: 'English_United Kingdom.1252'

In [6]: print string.letters
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ƒSOZsozYªµºAAAAÄÅÆÇEÉEEIIIIDÑOOOOÖOUUUÜY_
ßàáâaäåæçèéêëìíîïdñòóôoöoùúûüy_ÿ

The strings for locales are different for POSIX vs Windows systems. 

http://docs.python.org/library/locale.html