Python | Splitting a string into a list of characters

Method # 1: Using list()
This is the simplest way to solve this particular problem, using an internal implementation of the built-in list function that helps to split the string into its character components.

# Python3 demo code # split the string into a list of characters # using list ()   # initialization string test_string = ’GeeksforGeeks’    # print original string print ( "The original strin g is: " + str (test_string))   # using a list () # split the string into a list of characters res = list (test_string)   # print result print ( "The splitted character’s list is:" + str (res))

Exit:

The original string is: Python.Engineering
The splitted character’s list is: [’G’, ’e’, ​​’e’, ​​’k’, ’s’, ’f’, ’o’ , ’r’, ’G’, ’e’, ​​’e’, ​​’k’, ’s’]

Method # 2: Using map()
The map function can also be used to accomplish this specific task. The map function must be supplied with the value None to perform this task as the first argument and the target string as the last argument. Works only for Python2.

# Python code for demonstration # split the string into a list of characters # using map ()   # initialization string test_string = ’GeeksforGeeks’    # print the original string print ( "The original string is:" + str (test_string))   # using map () # split the string into a list of characters res = list ( map ( None , test_string))    # print result print ( "The splitted character’s list is:" + str (res))

Output:

The original string is: Python.Engineering
The splitted character’s list is: [’G’, ’e’, ​​’e’, ​​’ k ’,’ s’, ’f’, ’o’, ’r’, ’G’, ’e’, ​​’e’, ​​’k’, ’s’]