[Tutor] Splitting a string into a list.

[Francois Granger]

At 4:10 +0200 25/07/02, in message [Tutor] Splitting a string into a 
list., Troels Leth Petersen wrote:
>Isn't there a built-in that does the following:
>
>>>>  liste = []
>>>>  for char in thing:
>...  liste.append(char)
>... 
>>>>  liste
>['l', 'o', 't', 't', 'o']
>  >>>

Aside from the list() builtin, you can treat a string as a non mutable list.

for exemple:
>>>  a = 'toto'
>>>  for b in a[:]:
...  print b
...
t
o
t
o
>>>