[Tutor] String to list conversion

[Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Taylan Karaman <taylankaraman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a beginner. And I am trying to get a user input converted to a list.
>
> print 'Enter your first name :'
> firstname = raw_input()
>
> So if the user input is
>
> firstname = 'foo'    ----------->should become-------->
> firstlist['f','o','o']
>
>
> thanks in advance
>
if I understand this correctly, you want a name like "foo" to be changed to
['f', 'o','o']
This is what the list function does. for example,
>>> name = "foo"
>>> list(name)
['f', 'o', 'o']
>>>


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