python how to split a string of characters in a list 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: splitting a string and appending each character to a list python

def split(string_with_spaces):
    string_list = string_list.split()
    list_split_string = []
    for i in string_list:
        list_split_string.append(list(i))
    return list_split_string