python parsing question from a python newbie (though coding for 10 years)

[Anton Muhin]

Pat McGroin wrote:
> I need to take a string and parse\split\breakup the string into each
> seperate character into an array.  The only part I don't know is how
> to split into seperate chars, could someone please give me a quick 1
> line of code answer?
> 
> Thanks.

There are several ways. If you want simple lists, try this:

s = "abc"
list(s) --> ['a', 'b', 'c']

or

tuple(s) --> ('a', 'b', 'c')

If you want to iterate through chars:

for c in s:
	print c

a
b
c


HTH,
Anton.