string — Common string operations

Source code: Lib/string/__init__.py


String constants

The constants defined in this module are:

string.ascii_letters

The concatenation of the ascii_lowercase and ascii_uppercase constants described below. This value is not locale-dependent.

string.ascii_lowercase

The lowercase letters 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'. This value is not locale-dependent and will not change.

string.ascii_uppercase

The uppercase letters 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'. This value is not locale-dependent and will not change.

string.digits

The string '0123456789'.

string.hexdigits

The string '0123456789abcdefABCDEF'.

string.octdigits

The string '01234567'.

string.punctuation

String of ASCII characters which are considered punctuation characters in the C locale: !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~.

string.printable

String of ASCII characters which are considered printable by Python. This is a combination of digits, ascii_letters,