[Tutor] string to list of characters

[Rick Pasotto]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:29:22AM +0100, sean dowie wrote:
> I want to turn a word into a list of the letters, eg "dog" becomes
> ['d', 'o', 'g'].  Is there a simple way to use split() or something to
> do this, or do I have to loop through each letter of the string?

>>> w = 'dog'
>>> l = list(w)
>>> print w
dog
>>> print l
['d', 'o', 'g']

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Taken literally, the famous formula, property is theft, is
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