Python: How can I increment a char?

Question

I'm new to Python, coming from Java and C. How can I increment a char? In Java or C, chars and ints are practically interchangeable, and in certain loops, it's very useful to me to be able to do increment chars, and index arrays by chars.

How can I do this in Python? It's bad enough not having a traditional for(;;) looper - is there any way I can achieve what I want to achieve without having to rethink my entire strategy?

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

Use the ord and chr functions

>>> ord('c')
99
>>> ord('c') + 1
100
>>> chr(ord('c') + 1)
'd'
>>> 

Answer 2

"bad enough not having a traditional for(;;) looper"?? What?

Are you trying to do

import string
for c in string.lowercase:
    ...do something with c...

Or perhaps you're using string.uppercase or string.letters?

Python doesn't have for(;;) because there are often better ways to do it. It also doesn't have character math because it's not necessary, either.