Unicode Characters English and Indian Languages

Question

Hello Python Community,
I created this program which prints unicode characters of English and Indian Language Characters.

https://code.sololearn.com/cQUXAFquw9ww/#py

Could please help me in optimising this code?
In section 3 to section 10
I have created a empty list named numbers and have been successful in running a for loop to append all numbers in a particular range into the numbers list. It works smoothly and I am happy with this.

In section 1 however, I tried the same trick to create an empty list named characters and tried to append them with a for loop for a particular range of characters (not numbers). How is this possible? I was not successful, so I ended up manually typing all english alphabets A to Z in the list named characters to create 26 items. Is there an efficient way to do this?

Answer 1

@Granger : Thanks.

1. The below line of code is useful
characters = list(i for i in "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")
I did not know that we have to just knock-off the range() from for loop and just for plain string.

2. The use of formatted strings appears to be an efficient way

I still have a question.
"How to fill an empty list with characters. i.e. let us say I am lazy and I know english alphabet starts with A and ends with Z, I just give these two characters as something like start and stop in a range and it should automatically fill the empty characters list. Suppose, I want to give a start with a lowercase "a" and end with smallercase "z". I do not want to retype the 26 character string. Is there a work around. I am wondering, if in my mother tongue (Tamil) which has 247 characters, "How do I just type the starting alphabet and ending alphabet and add them to the list (with an append method).

Thank you once again for your fast response and neat code

Answer 2

@Granger : why not use a simple numbers.append() instruction instead of the creating an user defined function called add to append the list

def add(x, lst):
lst.append(x)

# section 2
numbers = list()
for number in range(65,91):
add(number, numbers)
for number in numbers:
print (f"The Character for the Unicode value {str(numbers)} is : {chr(number)}")