simple question

[Terry Reedy]

"Christopher Palmer" <ctp at ctpdesign.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1016868517.25439.python-list at python.org...

> Let's say I have a variable called a

Actually, you have a name 'a'.

> and a contains an integer, say 4522

and the name is bound to an int, conventionally written 4522.

> and I want 4, 5, 2, and 2 to be items in a list instead of an
integer...

Do you want the list to contain 4 ints (answer given by Johann as:
  map(int, str(a))
) or 4 digits:
  ''.split(str(a))
?

Terry J. Reedy