splitting a string and appending each character to a list python

1def split(word): 
2    return [char for char in word]  
3      
4# Driver code 
5word = 'geeks'
6print(split(word)) 
7
8#Output ['g', 'e', 'e', 'k', 's']

1def split(string_with_spaces):
2    string_list = string_list.split()
3    list_split_string = []
4    for i in string_list:
5        list_split_string.append(list(i))
6    return list_split_string

1# Python3 - separate each character of non-spaced string
2
3def split(string): 
4	return [letter for letter in string] 
5	
6# Driver code 
7string = 'split this string'
8print(split(string)) 
9