How to split a single word string in python into list of characters code example

Example 1: how to split a string into a list of characters in python

list("python")
#output ["p", "y", "t", "h", "o", "n"]

Example 2: python string to list of chars

l = list('abcd')  	        # ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
l = map(None, 'abcd')       # ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
l = [i for i in 'abcd']	    # ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']

import re               # importing regular expression module
l = re.findall('.', 'abcd')
print(l)                	# ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']