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How can I write a loop using letters instead of numbers so it looks like this:
2 sets used 'a-z' and 'A-Z'
aaaaa
aaaaA
aaaAa
aaAaa
and so on:
aaaAA
then on to b:
bbbbb
bbbbA

I can do it with numbers, something like this:
Python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. for i in range(10):
  2.    for j in range(10):
  3.      for k in range(10):
  4.        print i,j,k

How does this work with letters?
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Re: writing a loop with letters not numbers

 
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You can use the magic of ascii

ord("a")==97
chr(97)=="a"
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Thanks for the reply. Here's part of my problem with that:
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  1. for i in range(97,122):
  2.   for j in range(97,122):
  3.    for k in range(97,122):
  4.      print chr(i),chr(j),chr(k)
That type of loop will work but will take too long to run through the combos and I would also need the Caps (65,90) to run through it.
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I can do it with numbers, something like this:
This is not true, or you did not show us that. Your code does not produce the desired output, and it is not, that it has numbers instead of characters.

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help with simple discrete math homework.

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Re: writing a loop with letters not numbers

 
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May be this would help you:
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  1.  def Separate (strng):
  2.     uppers = []
  3.     lowers = []
  4.     for letter in strng: 
  5.         if letter.isupper(): 
  6.              uppers.append(letter)
  7.         else:
  8.              lowers.append(letter)
  9.  
  10.     print "Lowers:",lowers   
  11.     print "Uppers:",uppers

Calling the function:
python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. Separate('bbbbA')
  2. Lowers: ['b', 'b', 'b', 'b']
  3. Uppers: ['A']

1.Create two lists, one for uppers and another one for lowers

2.Use the boolean function "str.isupper()" to determine if a letter is in uppercase.

3. In case that you want to return the lowers and the uppers as string, you can use:
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  1. uppersstr =''.join([i for i in uppers])
  2. lowersstr = ''.join([i for i in lowers ])
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This is not true, or you did not show us that. Your code does not produce the desired output, and it is not, that it has numbers instead of characters.

I think the problem:

is solved.

Please open a new topic with something similar:
help with simple discrete math homework.

I will gladly help.
I put a loop up of numbers to show that I can run a loop with a given amount of chars. I can add 2 more values to it if a list of 5 is what I'm after. Running the numbers loop will produce:
0 0 0
0 0 1
0 0 2
and so on. After the suggested use of chr() I was able to write the loop to use letters instead of numbers but my original question was how to do this with uppers as well as lowers:
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How can I write a loop using letters instead of numbers so it looks like this:
2 sets used 'a-z' and 'A-Z':
At your suggestion, I will mark this as solved and start a new post.
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Re: writing a loop with letters not numbers

 
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Here's some clues to help you!
python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1.  
  2. >>> ord('A')
  3. 65
  4. >>> ord('a')
  5. 97
  6. >>> ord('Z')
  7. 90
  8. >>> ord('z')
  9. 122
  10. >>> from string import letters
  11. >>> letters
  12. 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
  13. >>> uppers = letters[26:]
  14. >>> lowers = letters[:26]
  15. >>> uppers
  16. 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
  17. >>> lowers
  18. 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
  19. >>>

you cna iterate over those strings easily like this:
python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. for lower in lowers:
  2.     for upper in uppers:
  3.         print lower, upper
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jlm699, thank you! That helped alot!
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