> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Troels Leth Petersen wrote: > > Isn't there a built-in that does the following: > > >>> liste > > ['l', 'o', 't', 't', 'o'] Oops my copy solution doesn't work, sorry, I should have read the problem statement more slowly. > The list() builtin will turn any sequence-like thing into a > list of its elements. Indeed. map(None, thing) works too. Alan g.