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Thanks Chris!

It seems I am blind I should have seen it...
In fact I started with the need (imaginary) to use enumerate() to get 
some indices
but ended in a more simple code. Indeed, your's is simpler.

For the double chars extension I will see if I need it in the future.

Cheers
Karim

On 08/02/2011 02:07 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Karim<kliateni@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> ...         for char in cellnames.replace('', ' ').split()[:cols]:
> for char in cellnames[:cols]:
>
> Strings are iterable over their characters. Alternatively, you could
> use chr and ord, but it's probably cleaner and simpler to have the
> string there. It also automatically and implicitly caps your columns
> at 26. On the other hand, if you want to support more than 26 columns,
> you may want to make your own generator function to yield 'A', 'B',...
> 'Z', 'AA', 'AB', etc.
>
> ChrisA