split string in array of char in python code example

Example 1: how to split a string by character in python

def split(word): 
    return [char for char in word]  
      
# Driver code 
word = 'geeks'
print(split(word)) 

#Output ['g', 'e', 'e', 'k', 's']

Example 2: turn a string into a list of characters python

#Use the function list()
word = list(word)

Example 3: splitting a string and appending each character to a list python

def split(string_with_spaces):
    string_list = string_list.split()
    list_split_string = []
    for i in string_list:
        list_split_string.append(list(i))
    return list_split_string

Example 4: python split string on char

>>> "MATCHES__STRING".split("__")
['MATCHES', 'STRING']

Example 5: how to save string characters into char array or list in python

fd = open(filename, 'rU')
chars = []
for line in fd:
    chars.extend(line)