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Ira
Ira

Reputation: 99

Accessing sub-element of a list

For a list of words, how can I access each alphabet of the word. For example

food = ['eel', 'egg', 'yam', 'nut', 'oats']

I need to retrieve each food by its individual letters and make it into a list, i.e. 

each_food[1] = ['e', 'e', 'l']
each_food[2] = ['e', 'g', 'g']

Any help is appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1460

Answers (2)

Estefania Cass. N.
Estefania Cass. N.

Reputation: 1

If you need to store the lists in an array named each_food, you can use a for loop to split the string into a list of individual characters and then append each list of characters to each_food:

food = ['eel', 'egg', 'yam', 'nut', 'oats']    
each_food = []

for item in food:
    each_food.append(list(item))

This way you can access each list of characters with the corresponding string index (starting from 0). For example:

each_food[0]

Would produce the first list as output:

['e', 'e', 'l']

Upvotes: 0

Sunimal S.K Malkakulage
Sunimal S.K Malkakulage

Reputation: 520

list(<string>)

will split a string into a list of characters 

food = ['eel', 'egg', 'yam', 'nut', 'oats']

print(list(food[0]))
print(list(food[1]))

Upvotes: 3

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