Function/method returning list of chars in string?

[Terry Reedy]

Robert Kern wrote:

>> Important correction noted. But how did you find those? When I search
>> for 'Shaw' with the search box (I tried it again), I only get a couple
>> of other, irrelevant hits. Is the search box buggy?
> 
> I suspect so. I knew of most of them already, and Googling 
> site:pypi.python.org picked up the rest.

Will use that in the future.  In the meanwhile, I submitted a bug report.