Inserting individual characters of a string into an array

Question

I'm new to Python and I'm attempting to place each individual character of a string into an individual element of an array.

string= 'Hello'
array= []

length_of_string= len(string)-1

for i in range (length_of_string):
    array.append(string(i))

print(array)

However when I run this code an error occurs as shown below.

   array.append(string(i))
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

The append function works fine when I append to an array using strings or numbers normally but in this instance it does not work.

What do I have to do to get

['H','e','l','l','o']

`string(i)` is not correct – it is 'not callable' because it is not a function. (If you use the correct form `string[i]`, you still get a suprising result because of that (surprising!) earlier `-1`.) — Jongware, Mar 22 '18 at 10:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '18 at 10:31

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You mean string[i] if you wan't the ith element of string (not string(i) -- python isn't matlab). However, it's much faster just to do

list(string)  # ['H','e','l','l','o']

answered Mar 22 '18 at 10:31

FHTMitchell

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