[Tutor] range()-like function to generate aa, ... az, ..., zz ?

[Alan G]

Is this what you want?

>>> import string
>>> ltrs = string.lowercase
>>> [''.join([a,b]) for a in ltrs for b in ltrs]

HTH,

Alan G.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Shenton" <chris at shenton.org>
To: <tutor at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:59 PM
Subject: [Tutor] range()-like function to generate aa, ... az, ..., zz 
?


> I'm looking for a range()-like function which could generate a list 
> of
> character-oriented tokens, like to iterate over all two-character
> sequences like:
>
> pseudorange('aa', 'zz') would generate:
>  aa, ab, ..., az, ba, ..., za, ..., zz
>
> range() doesn't do character iteration, and I'm sure I could write 
> a
> dumb function to do it, but was wondering if there was something 
> more
> generic -- e.g., later I might want
>
> pseudorange('aaa', 'mmm')
>
> Anyway, is there a function to iterate through a range of character
> strings similar to this?
>
> Thanks.
>
>