Question

I’ve been using something like this to take a string and break it down to add to a list

example_string = "Test"
example_list =[]
for x in example_string:
    example_list.append(x)

Output:

example_list = ['T','e','s','t']

Is there a more direct way to do this?

Answer 1

You mean something better than :

example_string = "Test"
example_list = list(example_string)

Ouput :

example_list = ["T","e","s","t"]

In python strings are iterable like list or tuples, you can easily transform a string into a tuple or a list by calling tuple() or list() on it.