[python] String to list in Python

I'm trying to split a string:

'QH QD JC KD JS'

into a list like:

['QH', 'QD', 'JC', 'KD', 'JS']

How would I go about doing this?

Maybe like this:

list('abcdefgh') # ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h']

You can use the split() function, which returns a list, to separate them.

letters = 'QH QD JC KD JS'

letters_list = letters.split()

Printing letters_list would now format it like this:

['QH', 'QD', 'JC', 'KD', 'JS']

Now you have a list that you can work with, just like you would with any other list. For example accessing elements based on indexes:

print(letters_list[2])

This would print the third element of your list, which is 'JC'

Or for fun:

>>> ast.literal_eval('[%s]'%','.join(map(repr,s.split())))
['QH', 'QD', 'JC', 'KD', 'JS']
>>> 

ast.literal_eval

Here the simples

a = [x for x in 'abcdefgh'] #['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h']