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

from itertools import chain

string = 'your string'
chain(string)

similar to list(string) but returns a generator that is lazily evaluated at point of use, so memory efficient.