Is there a list of all ASCII characters in python's standard library? [duplicate]

Question

Is there a field or a function that would return all ASCII characters in python's standard library?

Answer 1

You can make one.

ASCII = ''.join(chr(x) for x in range(128)) 

If you need to check for membership, there are other ways to do it:

if c in ASCII:     # c is an ASCII character  if c <= '\x7f':     # c is an ASCII character 

If you want to check that an entire string is ASCII:

def is_ascii(s):     """Returns True if a string is ASCII, False otherwise."""     try:         s.encode('ASCII')         return True     except UnicodeEncodeError:         return False 

Answer 2

You can use the string module:

import string print string.printable 

which gives:

'0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~ \t\n\r\x0b\x0c'