How to parse a string completely into a list

[Tino Wildenhain]

john.ford at colorado.edu wrote:
> On Sep 24, 10:12 pm, Matt Nordhoff <mnordh... at mattnordhoff.com> wrote:
>> john.f... at colorado.edu wrote:
>>> On Sep 24, 9:44 pm, "Chris Rebert" <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
....
>>>> Could you please define exactly what you mean by "elements" of a string?
>>>> If you mean characters, then just use list():>>> list("  \n \t abc")
>>>> [' ', ' ', '\n', ' ', '\t', ' ', 'a', 'b', 'c']
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Chris
>>> Worked like a charm.
>>> kudos!
>> Why do you need to convert it to a list? Strings are sequences, so you
>> can do things like slice them or iterate through them by character:
>>
>>>>> for character in "foo":
>> ...     print character
>> ...
>> f
>> o
>> o
>>
>> --
> 
> The string draws a map that I then want to be able to traverse
> through. If I can count through the individual characters of a list I
> can create an x-y coordinate plane for navigation.

You can 'count' (whatever that means) equally in strings as you do in
lists. As said above, they behave exactly the same. Just strings
are imutable - e.g. you can't change individual parts of them.

Tino


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