splitting and concatenating a string

Question

I wanted to know if python had a built in function similar to:

string->list
 

and

list->string in scheme.

So What should I do if I want to turn 'abc' into ['a','b','c'] and vice versa using a built in function?

Answer 1

You can try the following code in order to convert from String to list:

>>> list('abc')
['a', 'b', 'c']
 

And for List to string:

>>> ''.join(['a', 'b', 'c'])
'abc'