If you have text (string) in Python, you can break that up into a bunch of characters. There are several ways to do that.
In this article we'll discuss Python methods for processing a text string, for each character individually.
Processing a string into a character list
Use list(str)
If you have a string, you can turn it into characters by calling the list() function, this turns it into a list.
>>> a = 'abcdefg'
>>> list(a)
[ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g']
>>> aList = list(a)
>>> for item in aList:
print (item) # Here you can add other operations, we simply use print
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
>>>
Use for traversal strings
The for loop lets you loop over a strings characters. This iterates over every character in the string, where item is your character.
>>> a = 'abcdefg'
>>> for item in a:
print (item) # Here you can add other operations, we simply use print
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
>>>
list tricks you can use
You can use the code below to breakup a string too
>>> a = 'abcdefg'
>>> result = [item for item in a]
>>> result
[ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g']
>>>
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