char list from 0 to f

Question

I write a python script, which needs a list of all hexadecimal characters.

Is it a good idea to do list(string.printable[:16]) to get ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'] ?

Answer 1

The simplest way would be a list comprehension of all numbers from 0 to 15 formatted as hex:

["{:x}".format(x) for x in range(0,16)]

User GarbageCollector suggested a nice alternative in comments, which must be adapted to remove the redundant, uppercased chars:

>>> import string
>>> string.hexdigits
'0123456789abcdefABCDEF'
>>> string.hexdigits[:16]
'0123456789abcdef'

to get a list:

>>> list(string.hexdigits[:16])