Python 2.7 quick reference

A string containing all the letters from ascii_uppercase and ascii_lowercase.

The characters that are considered lowercase letters in the ASCII character set, namely:

"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

The value of this constant does not depend on the locale setting; see Section 19.4, “What is the locale?”.

The decimal digits: "0123456789".

The hexadecimal digits: "0123456789abcdefABCDEF".

A string containing all the characters that are considered letters in the current locale.

A string containing all the characters that are considered lowercase letters in the current locale.

Builds a translation table to be used as the first argument to the .translate() string method. The arguments s and t are two strings of the same length; the result is a translation table that will convert each character of s to the corresponding character of t.

>>> import string
>>> bingo=string.maketrans("lLrR", "rRlL")
>>> "Cornwall Llanfair".translate(bingo)
'Colnwarr Rranfail'
>>> "Cornwall Llanfair".translate(bingo, 'ai')
'Colnwrr Rrnfl'

The octal digits: "01234567".

A string containing all the printable characters.

All printable characters that are not letters or digits in the current locale. If ASCII is the locale's current encoding, these characters are included:

!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~

A string containing all the characters that are considered uppercase letters in the current locale. May not be the same as ascii_uppercase

A string containing all the characters considered to be white space in the current locale. For ASCII this will be:

"\t\n\x0b\x0c\r "

See Section 9.2, “Definition of “whitespace””.