[Tutor] Splitting a string into a list.

[Danny Yoo]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Troels Leth Petersen wrote:

> Isn't there a built-in that does the following:
>
> >>> liste = []
> >>> for char in thing:
> ...  liste.append(char)
> ...
> >>> liste
> ['l', 'o', 't', 't', 'o']


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>>> lotto = "youareawinner"
>>> list(lotto)
['y', 'o', 'u', 'a', 'r', 'e', 'a', 'w', 'i', 'n', 'n', 'e', 'r']
###

Yes.  *grin*


The list() builtin will turn any sequence-like thing into a list of its
elements.  To go back, from a list of characters to a string, is a little
weirder: we can use a join, using the empty string:

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>>> ''.join(list(lotto))
'youareawinner'
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Hope this helps!