How to split a string into an array of characters in Python?

Question

I\'ve tried to look around the web for answers to splitting a string into an array of characters but I can\'t seem to find a simple method

str.split(//)

Answer 1

You can also do it in this very simple way without list():

>>> [c for c in "foobar"]
['f', 'o', 'o', 'b', 'a', 'r']