Getting a number out of a string

[Claudio Grondi]

what about:
>>> lst = [digit for digit in '06897']
>>> lst
['0', '6', '8', '9', '7']

Claudio

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> I'm trying to extract single digit number from a string.
>
> t[1] = '06897'
>
> I want to get the 7, 9,8 & 6 seperated out to use but can't find a way
> to split out the single characters.
>
> Thanks
>