In [8]: import string In [9]: dir(string) In [10]: string.ascii_letters
Out[10]: 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' In [11]: string.ascii_lowercase
Out[11]: 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' In [12]: string.ascii_uppercase
Out[12]: 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' In [13]: string.digits
Out[13]: '' In [14]: string.punctuation
Out[14]: '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~' In [15]: string.whitespace
Out[15]: '\t\n\x0b\x0c\r '