Can strings be stored as arrays? For example, can "Hello" be stored as [H, e, l, l, o]?

[SubhanUllah]

 

The individual letters would all have to be strings if that string “Hello” were to be pieced out into what would be now be stored as a list [“H”, “e”, “l”, “l”, “o”], and no longer as a string. Because to begin with, your [H, e, l, l, o] wouldn't be recognised by Python. Let's check the type; it will produce an error…

print(type([H, e, l, l, o])) 
 
#OUTPUT (Error) 
NameError: name 'H' is not defined 
If those letters were say numbers or booleans, then they'd be recognised. E.g. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

So from your string “Hello”, what you could do is to piece it out into a list with a list() casting…

thestring = "Hello" 
thelist = list(thestring) 
 
print(thelist) 
#OUTPUT 
['H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'] 
If you want your string back, as in getting back a string form from thelist, that'd be yet another story, such as using the .join()…

thelist = ['H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'] 
 
thestringback = "".join(thelist) 
 
print(thestringback) 
#OUTPUT 
Hello 
 
print(type(thestringback)) 
<class 'str'>