python string to char 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: turn a string into a list of characters python

#Use the function list()
word = list(word)

Example 3: python string to char array

>>> s = "foobar"
>>> list(s)
['f', 'o', 'o', 'b', 'a', 'r']

Example 4: how to save string characters into char array or list in python

fd = open(filename, 'rU')
chars = []
for line in fd:
    chars.extend(line)