Python | Program to convert String to a List

In this program, we will try to convert a given string to a list, where spaces or any other special characters, according to the users choice, are encountered. To do this we use the split() method.
Syntax:

string.split("delimiter")

Examples:

Input : "Geeks for Geeks"
Output : ['Geeks', 'for', 'Geeks']

Input : "Geeks-for-Geeks"
Output : ['Geeks', 'for', 'Geeks']

The split method is used to split the strings and store them in the list. The built-in method returns a list of the words in the string, using the “delimiter” as the delimiter string. If a delimiter is not specified or is None, a different splitting algorithm is applied: runs of consecutive whitespace are regarded as a single separator, and the result will contain no empty strings at the start or end if the string has leading or trailing whitespace.
Example 1:

# Python code to convert string to list 
  
def Convert(string): 
    li = list(string.split(" ")) 
    return li 
  
# Driver code     
str1 = "Geeks for Geeks"
print(Convert(str1)) 

Output:

['Geeks', 'for', 'Geeks']

Example 2:

# Python code to convert string to list 
def Convert(string): 
    li = list(string.split("-")) 
    return li 
  
# Driver code     
str1 = "Geeks-for-Geeks"
print(Convert(str1)) 

Output:

['Geeks', 'for', 'Geeks']

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