Converting a string to an array?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-01-12, Ron Griswold <RGriswold at Rioting.com> wrote:

>> This lacks the beauty of most python code, and clearly feels like 
>> there's somethign I'm missing.  Is there some method or function 
>> I've overlooked that would convert a string to an array with less 
>> song-and-dance?  Thanks,
>
>> 	import random
>> 	s = "abcdefg"
>> 	a = []
>> 	a.extend(s)
>> 	random.shuffle(a)
>> 	s = "".join(a)
>

> Does this do what you are looking for?
>
>>>> s = 'abcdefg';
>>>> a = [];
>>>> a += s;
>>>> a;
> ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g']

That's a bit round-about:

>>> list('abcdefg')
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g']

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