The constants defined in this module are:
- ascii_letters
-
The concatenation of the ascii_lowercase and
ascii_uppercase constants described below. This value is
not locale-dependent.
- ascii_lowercase
-
The lowercase letters
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'. This
value is not locale-dependent and will not change.
- ascii_uppercase
-
The uppercase letters
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'. This
value is not locale-dependent and will not change.
- digits
-
The string
'0123456789'.
- hexdigits
-
The string
'0123456789abcdefABCDEF'.
- letters
-
The concatenation of the strings lowercase and
uppercase described below. The specific value is
locale-dependent, and will be updated when
locale.setlocale() is called.
- lowercase
-
A string containing all the characters that are considered lowercase
letters. On most systems this is the string
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'. Do not change its definition --
the effect on the routines upper() and
swapcase() is undefined. The specific value is
locale-dependent, and will be updated when
locale.setlocale() is called.
- octdigits
-
The string
'01234567'.
- punctuation
-
String of ASCII characters which are considered punctuation
characters in the "C" locale.
- printable
-
String of characters which are considered printable. This is a
combination of digits, letters,
punctuation, and whitespace.
- uppercase
-
A string containing all the characters that are considered uppercase
letters. On most systems this is the string
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'. Do not change its definition --
the effect on the routines lower() and
swapcase() is undefined. The specific value is
locale-dependent, and will be updated when
locale.setlocale() is called.
- whitespace
-
A string containing all characters that are considered whitespace.
On most systems this includes the characters space, tab, linefeed,
return, formfeed, and vertical tab. Do not change its definition --
the effect on the routines strip() and split()
is undefined.
Release 2.4, documentation updated on 30 November 2004.
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