Create list from string

[Peter Otten]

ericdaniel wrote:

> I'm new to Python and I need to do the following:
> 
> from this:   s = "978654321"
> to this :      ["978", "654", "321"]

Use a loop:

>>> s = "978654321"
>>> items = []
>>> for start in range(0, len(s), 3):
...     items.append(s[start:start+3])
...
>>> items
['978', '654', '321']

or a list comprehension:

>>> [s[start:start+3] for start in range(0, len(s), 3)]
['978', '654', '321']

Peter