split string letter by letter python code example

Example 1: turn a string into a list of characters python

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

Example 2: python split string in characters

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

Example 3: python split string on char

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