How to split a list of Userinput

Question

This is my code:

list = []
text = input("Please give your text:")
text = str(text)
list.append(text)
list = str(list)

And I want to give the input, for example: abcd. Then, I want it to split it in ["a","b","c","d"]

`text = input("Please give your text:") text = list(text) print(text)` — Rakesh, Jul 23 '18 at 07:28
Side note: You shouldn't call a variable `list` it shadows a built in keyword. — Sayse, Jul 23 '18 at 07:29

Joe · Answer 1 · 2018-07-23T07:41:37.693

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Another option:

text = input("Please give your text:")
l = list(text)
print (l)

edited Jul 23 '18 at 07:41

answered Jul 23 '18 at 07:36

Joe

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '18 at 07:32

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First, avoid naming your variable as list. You can then, split a str into list just by saying list(text).

lst = []
text = input("Please give your text:")
lst.extend(list(text))
print (lst)

Output

['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']

answered Jul 23 '18 at 07:32

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Why are you creating an empty list and then `extend`ing it instead of simply creating the list directly? – Tim Pietzcker Jul 23 '18 at 07:36
I assumed, OP would be adding more items to the list :) – Sunitha Jul 23 '18 at 08:10

ChickenFeet · Answer 3 · 2018-07-23T07:48:54.753

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Access the characters by Index. By iterating over the string, you can pull out each character individually. The variable i will be equal to index 0 to the length of text and you can access the character elements by index with text[i]. See example below:

user_input_as_chars = []
text = input("Please give your text:")
for i in range(0, len(text)):
    user_input_as_chars.append(text[i])
user_input_as_chars = str(list)

Another approach is to traverse the Strings as an iterable:

for char in text:
    user_input_as_chars.append(char)

edited Jul 23 '18 at 07:48

answered Jul 23 '18 at 07:29

ChickenFeet

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your solution is overcode. – Brown Bear Jul 23 '18 at 07:30
Maybe so, but it is arguably easier to follow for a beginner to Python. _This isn't code golf_. – ChickenFeet Jul 23 '18 at 07:32
It's not "let's teach antipatterns to newcomers" either. a) using `list` as a variable name. b) creating an empty list only to extend it later when it could be created entirely by a single call to `list()` (if you hadn't shadowed it). c) calling `str()` on a string. d) iterating through a string by indexing instead of item iteration. – Tim Pietzcker Jul 23 '18 at 07:40
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Six lines instead of a single `l = list(input("Please give your text:"))`... – Tim Pietzcker Jul 23 '18 at 07:41
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@TimPietzcker that being said, you still have valid points above. Sorry I didn't inspect BOB's code very thoroughly. – ChickenFeet Jul 23 '18 at 08:44

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 23 '18 at 07:44

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text = input("Please give your text:")
list.extend(list(text))
print (list)

answered Jul 23 '18 at 07:44

Techgeeks1

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This won't work. Don't shadow built-in names... – Tim Pietzcker Jul 23 '18 at 07:49

How to split a list of Userinput

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