[Tutor] Split a string into characters

luke rabidpoobear at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 03:49:33 CEST 2005


>   How do I split a string like "Hans" into a list of characters
> ['H','a','n','s']?
[snip]

well you could write your own function...

def splititems(itemlist):
    templist = []
    for item in itemlist:
        templist.append(item)
    return templist

print splititems("Hello")

or even

def splititems(itemlist):
    return [item for item in itemlist]

print splititems("Hello")

well I have to go, I hope that helps you.


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