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 use extend method in list operations as well.

>>> list1 = []
>>> list1.extend('somestring')
>>> list1
['s', 'o', 'm', 'e', 's', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g']