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Python: how to print range a-z?

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1. Print a-n: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n

111 2. Every second in a-n: a c e g i k m

3. Append a-n to index of urls{hello.com/, hej.com/, ..., hallo.com/}: hello.com/a hej.com/b ...
hallo.com/n
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python string list ascii

edited Jun 11 '19 at 23:45 asked Jul 6 '10 at 20:51

dreftymac hhh
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6 Odd that to a "beginner" question you can still get a variety of answers. The fact that I can type does not
mean that I can "python", I really like gnibbler's answer over for-messy-things. Thanks everyone for your
answers and -- keep things simple, special thanks to gnibbler. – hhh Dec 23 '10 at 2:06

2 It's not a wild variety of answers. It's two varieties. One use range and chr() and another the ready
made lists in string , which many people wouldn't think of. – Lennart Regebro Dec 25 '10 at 8:45

16 Answers Active Oldest Votes

>>> import string

>>> string.ascii_lowercase[:14]
191 'abcdefghijklmn'
>>> string.ascii_lowercase[:14:2]
'acegikm'

To do the urls, you could use something like this

[i + j for i, j in zip(list_of_urls, string.ascii_lowercase[:14])]

edited Aug 23 '17 at 22:19 answered Jul 6 '10 at 21:01

John La Rooy
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1 I believe string.ascii_lowercase already worked in python 2.x, so to be sure just always use
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1 @johk95, actually str.lowercase is locale dependent so wasn't the best choice in the first place. I've

replaced it in my answer – John La Rooy Aug 23 '17 at 22:23

Hi, would be able to tell me whether is this only available in English? cant I get the same for other
languages as well? Thanks & Best Regards – Michael Schroter Apr 13 at 6:17

Assuming this is a homework ;-) - no need to summon libraries etc - it probably expect you to use
range() with chr/ord, like so:
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for i in range(ord('a'), ord('n')+1):
print chr(i),

For the rest, just play a bit more with the range()

answered Jul 6 '10 at 23:55

Nas Banov
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Hints:

23 import string
print string.ascii_lowercase

and

for i in xrange(0, 10, 2):

print i

and

"hello{0}, world!".format('z')

answered Jul 6 '10 at 21:01

Wayne Werner
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for one in range(97,110):

print chr(one)
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yedpodtrzitko
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Get a list with the desired values

12 small_letters = map(chr, range(ord('a'), ord('z')+1))

big_letters = map(chr, range(ord('A'), ord('Z')+1))
digits = map(chr, range(ord('0'), ord('9')+1))

or

import string
string.letters
string.uppercase
string.digits

This solution uses the ASCII table. ord gets the ascii value from a character and chr vice versa.

Apply what you know about lists

>>> small_letters = map(chr, range(ord('a'), ord('z')+1))

>>> an = small_letters[0:(ord('n')-ord('a')+1)]
>>> print(" ".join(an))
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n

>>> print(" ".join(small_letters[0::2]))

a c e g i k m o q s u w y

>>> s = small_letters[0:(ord('n')-ord('a')+1):2]
>>> print(" ".join(s))
a c e g i k m

>>> urls = ["hello.com/", "hej.com/", "hallo.com/"]

>>> print([x + y for x, y in zip(urls, an)])
['hello.com/a', 'hej.com/b', 'hallo.com/c']

edited Feb 15 '15 at 20:21 answered Jun 22 '14 at 15:03

Martin Thoma
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It looks like string.letters was removed in Python 3 and only string.ascii_letters, not exactly the same, is
available – jonespm Feb 7 '19 at 17:50

import string
print list(string.ascii_lowercase)
8 # ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r',
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answered Feb 26 '16 at 8:24

Mikhail Makeev
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1 To make this a tuple (which is immutable) in Python 3: tuple(string.ascii_lowercase) – Alex Willison

May 16 '17 at 13:29

import string
print list(string.ascii_lowercase)
6 # ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r',
's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z']

and

for c in list(string.ascii_lowercase)[:5]:
...operation with the first 5 characters

answered Jul 21 '18 at 4:42

Miguel Silva
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myList = [chr(chNum) for chNum in list(range(ord('a'),ord('z')+1))]

print(myList)
4
Output

['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r',
's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z']

edited Sep 6 '19 at 11:10 answered Sep 6 '19 at 11:03

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Welcome to StackOverflow. Try to explain more clearly why this is a complete answer to the question. –
Jeroen Heier Sep 6 '19 at 11:11

Thanks. I like it how you build this. – hmacias Apr 7 at 1:57

#1)
print " ".join(map(chr, range(ord('a'),ord('n')+1)))
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print .join(map(chr, range(ord( a ),ord( n )+1,2)))

#3)
urls = ["hello.com/", "hej.com/", "hallo.com/"]
an = map(chr, range(ord('a'),ord('n')+1))
print [ x + y for x,y in zip(urls, an)]

answered Nov 29 '13 at 16:48

carlos_lm
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The answer to this question is simple, just make a list called ABC like so:

2 ABC = ['abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz']

And whenever you need to refer to it, just do:

print ABC[0:9] #prints abcdefghij

print ABC #prints abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
for x in range(0,25):
if x % 2 == 0:
print ABC[x] #prints acegikmoqsuwy (all odd numbered letters)

Also try this to break ur device :D

##Try this and call it AlphabetSoup.py:

ABC = ['abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz']

try:
while True:
for a in ABC:
for b in ABC:
for c in ABC:
for d in ABC:
for e in ABC:
for f in ABC:
print a, b, c, d, e, f, ' ',
except KeyboardInterrupt:
pass

edited Jan 15 '17 at 23:29 answered Dec 18 '16 at 18:17

SnootierBaBoon
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Try:
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strng
for i in range(97,123):

strng = strng + chr(i)

print(strng)

edited Feb 7 '18 at 20:25 answered Aug 13 '15 at 20:51

S. Salman Cetin Kaya Koc
481 3 18 29 2

This is your 2nd question: string.lowercase[ord('a')-97:ord('n')-97:2] because 97==ord('a') -- if

you want to learn a bit you should figure out the rest yourself ;-)
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answered Jul 6 '10 at 21:04
Jochen Ritzel
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I hope this helps:

1 import string

alphas = list(string.ascii_letters[:26])
for chr in alphas:
print(chr)

answered Aug 9 '19 at 18:51

Fasih Zafar
31 3

About gnibbler's answer.

0 Zip -function, full explanation, returns a list of tuples, where the i-th tuple contains the i-th
element from each of the argument sequences or iterables. [...] construct is called list
comprehension, very cool feature!

edited Dec 25 '10 at 4:37 answered Dec 23 '10 at 2:22

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list(string.ascii_lowercase)

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edited Jun 22 '16 at 13:06 answered Jun 22 '16 at 5:11

DhiaTN townie
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Another way to do it

0 import string
pass

aalist = list(string.ascii_lowercase)
aaurls = ['alpha.com','bravo.com','chrly.com','delta.com',]
iilen = aaurls.__len__()
pass

ans01 = "".join( (aalist[0:14]) )

ans02 = "".join( (aalist[0:14:2]) )
ans03 = "".join( "{vurl}/{vl}\n".format(vl=vjj[1],vurl=aaurls[vjj[0] % iilen]) for vjj in
enumerate(aalist[0:14]) )
pass

print(ans01)
print(ans02)
print(ans03)
pass

Result

abcdefghijklmn
acegikm
alpha.com/a
bravo.com/b
chrly.com/c
delta.com/d
alpha.com/e
bravo.com/f
chrly.com/g
delta.com/h
alpha.com/i
bravo.com/j
chrly.com/k
delta.com/l
alpha.com/m
bravo.com/n

How this differs from the other replies

iterate over an arbitrary number of base urls

cycle through the urls and do not stop until we run out of letters

use enumerate in conjunction with list comprehension and str.format

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