How to create a list with the characters of a string?

Question

Is it possible to transform a string into a list, like this:

"5+6"

into

["5", "+", "6"]

Do you simply want to turn single characters into a list, or do you want to tokenize the input, i.e. turn `57+23` into `["57", "+", "23"]`? — Håvard, Mar 31 '11 at 14:44

score 21 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 31 '11 at 14:42

21

list('5+6')

returns

['5', '+', '6']

answered Mar 31 '11 at 14:42

eumiro

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '11 at 14:42

3

Yes, very simply:

>>> s = "5+6"
>>> list(s)
['5', '+', '6']

answered Mar 31 '11 at 14:42

bgporter

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 12 '15 at 13:46

1

Using map inbuilt list creation to work

Code:

map(None,"sart")

Output:

['s', 'a', 'r', 't']

answered Oct 12 '15 at 13:46

The6thSense

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 10 '19 at 12:13

1

You can also use list comprehension like:

lst = [x for x in "5+6"]
print(lst)

answered Jun 10 '19 at 12:13

iboarici

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 25 '14 at 09:20

0

in python 3 you could make this ...

>>> s = 'bioinform'
>>> s
'bioinform'
>>> w = list(s)
>>> w
['b', 'i', 'o', 'i', 'n', 'f', 'o', 'r', 'm']
>>>

but if you give list any value will give you an error so you should restart your IDLE

answered Oct 25 '14 at 09:20

Mina Samir

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