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I'm having issues with raw_input again, this time trying to turn the value I get into a list. Here is my code:

original = raw_input("Type is your input? ")
original_as_array = list('original')
print original_as_array
for i in range(0,len(original)):
    print i

my print original_as_array literally prints ['o', 'r', 'i'.... etc]. If we pretend that my input is Hello World, I want original_as_array to output: ['H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'W', 'o'... etc]. I think I'm making a tiny mistake. Can you point me in the right direction:)?

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Quotes form a string literal.

original_as_array = list(original)
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original = raw_input("Type is your input? ")
original_as_array = list(original) # no quotes. If you put quotes, you are turning it into a string.
print original_as_array
for i in original_as_array: # this is shorter way to iterate and print than your method
    print i
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Strings are already iterable, so you don't need to convert it to a list, so you can easily go :

original = raw_input("Type is your input? ")
# or if you really want a list
original_as_list = list(original) # NOT 'original', that's passing the string original not the value of original
for letter in original:
    print letter
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