Splitting Strings with Empty Separator (Python)

[Matt]

I have been playing around with Python lately, and there is one operation that I have yet to figure out how to do. This is splitting a string into its individual characters, which I used to be able to do with other languages by simply splitting with an empty separator. In python, however, this returns an error.

>>> "testing123".split("")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#14>", line 1, in ?
    "testing123".split("")
ValueError: empty separator

How can I do this simple operation? Thanks...

[v0id]

I don't remember if there's such function (I'm a bit rusty), but it can be done in two lines, using a for-loop.

This shows how, using the interpreter:

>>> the_string = "Hello, World!"
>>> the_list   = []
>>> for each_character in the_string:
	the_list.append(each_character)

	
>>> the_list
['H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ',', ' ', 'W', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd', '!']
>>>

[Matt]

Great, that works just fine. Thanks.

[paddy3118]

Try:
list("Any string")

- Paddy.