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

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Answer 1

If you want to process your String one character at a time. you have various options.

uhello = u'Hello\u0020World'

Using List comprehension:

print([x for x in uhello])

Output:

['H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'W', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd']

Using map:

print(list(map(lambda c2: c2, uhello)))

Output:

['H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'W', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd']

Calling Built in list function:

print(list(uhello))

Output:

['H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'W', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd']

Using for loop:

for c in uhello:
    print(c)

Output:

H
e
l
l
o

W
o
r
l
d