If you wish to complete this in one line, Python has a neat way of allowing you to create lists with the use of list comprehensions
. If you wish to know more about what a list comprehension is, you may see point 5.1.3 here.
letters = [chr(letter) for letter in range(97, 123)]
A more comprehensible way of solving the problem is to append the characters to a letters list which should be defined before you begin to loop your range.
letters = []
for letter in range(97, 123):
letters.append(chr(letter))
print(letters)
The Python documentation does a good job of explaining the different data structures used throughout the programming language, I hope this clears up the various ways to solve your problem described.