How do you split a character in a list in python code example

Example 1: how to split a string by character in python

def split(word): 
    return [char for char in word]  
      
# Driver code 
word = 'geeks'
print(split(word)) 

#Output ['g', 'e', 'e', 'k', 's']

Example 2: split string to list

>>> list("Word to Split")
['W', 'o', 'r', 'd', ' ', 't', 'o', ' ', 'S', 'p', 'l', 'i', 't']