Python 2.5 quick reference

The decimal digits: "0123456789".

The hexadecimal digits: "0123456789abcdefABCDEF".

All the letters: "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".

All the lowercase letters: "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".

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, to wit:

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

All the uppercase characters: "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".

A string containing all the characters considered to be white space, namely:

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

In order, they are: tab, newline, vertical tab, form feed, carriage return, and space.