Range with chars or strings in Python arrays

Question

i am pretty new to python coming from Java, C, and Haskell environment, i was wondering if there exist something similar to the following but with strings and not numbers, so i have:

for i in range(5,11)
    print "Index : %d" %i

and the result will be: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (each in a new line of course). So, i want to have the same for strings, like:

for c in range("a","e")
    print "Alphabet : %s" %c

I am just curious and I have tried many things with both strings and chars but i could not obtain the result I want. Thanks in advance.

Not clear what result you expect. What is the result you want? — David Elson
– David Elson, Commented Jun 14, 2015 at 0:47
I assume he asks if python will understand that he wants the ASCII symbols between the two parameters. Can't test it right now, — Andris Leduskrasts
– Andris Leduskrasts, Commented Jun 14, 2015 at 0:50

xnx · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-14 00:50:17Z

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Strings are iterable in Python, so you can simply do:

for c in 'abcde':
    print 'Alphabet:', c

Alphabet: a
Alphabet: b
Alphabet: c
Alphabet: d
Alphabet: e

If you want an alternative with an explicit range, there's the (rather ugly):

for c in range(ord('a'), ord('e')+1):
     print 'Alphabet:', chr(c)

Alphabet: a
Alphabet: b
Alphabet: c
Alphabet: d
Alphabet: e

range does not take strings as arguments in Python, so you have to convert the characters to their ASCII equivalents and then back again.

answered Jun 14, 2015 at 0:50

xnx

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I8086 · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-14 01:40:37Z

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Python 2 If you want to print only a range of the Alphabet you can not use range() for strings. you can only use it for integers, but you can do this:

Alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
x = Alphabet[5:11]
print "Alphabet : %s" % x

The output is:

Alphabet : fghijk

If you want each string in a new line:

for i in x:
    print i

Output:

f
g
h
i
j
k

In Python 3 you would print like this:print(i)

edited Jun 14, 2015 at 1:40

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answered Jun 14, 2015 at 0:53

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