From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-04-10T12:38:03+09:00
Subject: Re: How to Write a Spelling Corrector

Brian Adkins wrote:
> 3) Minor point, but apparently Python has a built in constant for the set
> of lower case characters "string.lowercase", so I just defined a constant.
...
 > LETTERS = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'

A minor comment: you can construct this string with

("a".."z").to_a.join
=> "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

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