Is it possible to make a letter range in python?

Question

Is there a way to do a letter range in python like this:

for x in range(a,h,)

Answer 1

import string

def letter_range(f,l,al = string.ascii_lowercase):
    for x in al[al.index(f):al.index(l)]:
        yield x

print ' '.join(letter_range('a','h'))

result

a b c d e f g