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lambda s:[a*s.count(a)for a in{*s}-{' '}]


Pretty simple. Goes through the unique characters in the string by converting it to a set (using Python 3.5's extended iterable unpacking), then uses a list comprehension to construct the exploded diagrams by counting the number of times each character occurs in the string with str.count. We filter out spaces by removing them from the set.

The order of the output may vary from run to run; sets are unordered, so the order in which their items are processed, and thus this answer outputs, cannot be guaranteed.

This is a lambda expression; to use it, prefix lambda with f=.

Try it on Ideone! Ideone uses Python 3.4, which isn't sufficient.

Usage example:

&gt;&gt;&gt; f=lambda s:[a*s.count(a)for a in{*s}-{' '}]
&gt;&gt;&gt; f('Ah, abracadabra!')
[',', 'A', 'aaaaa', 'd', '!', 'bb', 'h', 'c', 'rr']


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