split in python2 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 string on char

>>> "MATCHES__STRING".split("__")
['MATCHES', 'STRING']