title: Is there an easy way to represent the base64 alphabet in a Python list?
body: <p>The alphabet (and its indices) can be found here:</p>
  
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  <p>Is there a shorter way than <code>alphabet = ['A','B',...]</code> of representing this alphabet?</p>