how to split a string in python and in a array 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: python split

>>> '1,2,3'.split(',')
['1', '2', '3']
>>> '1,2,3'.split(',', maxsplit=1)
['1', '2,3']
>>> '1,2,,3,'.split(',')
['1', '2', '', '3', '']

Example 3: python split list

string = 'this is a python string'
wordList = string.split(' ')