Hi! Joachim Bauch wrote: > an even faster way would be > > |>> s = 'another string' > |>> l = [ch for ch in s] > |>> l > ['a', 'n', 'o', 't', 'h', 'e', 'r', ' ', 's', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g'] Or shorter: >> s = 'some string' >> l = list(s) >> l >> ['s', 'o', 'm', 'e', ' ', 's', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g'] Best regards, Maik Röder