Questions on lists, the range function & concatenation

[fad3r]

Hi everyone.

2nd time poster so getting use to everything.

Here is what I got going on:
I am trying to create a list that looks like this:['a', 'b', 'c', ..., 'z'} so that I can then create a dictonary out of it.

I found a way to create that and the numbers 1-26

mport string
mylist = string.ascii_lowercase
a = "'"
b = "'"
c = ", "
for i in mylist:
    letters1 = a + i + b + c
    #print (letters1)

#Create range of numbers for merging
numbers = range(1,27)

But I am running into issues with the rest of the code I have which looks like this

#Create range of numbers for merging
numbers = range(1,27)
d = ":"
for n in numbers:
    numbers1 = str(n) + d
    print (numbers1)

I get an error when running the code and I can't seem to figure out how to get the numbers assigned to a list. If I just print numbers it says numbers = range (1,27) almost like it is treating it like a string instead of a function.

If I loop through I get an error about mistmatched types. If I loop through and try to convert those to a string (what is above) it also doesnt work.

If possible please explain this like you are talking to a 4 year old.

Thank you!