text: # string-to-list.py
  
  # some strings
  s1 = 'hello world'
  s2 = 'howdy world!'
  
  # list of characters
  charlist = []
  for char in s1:
      charlist.append(char)
  print charlist
  
  # list of 'words'
  wordlist = s2.split()
  print wordlist