You can index into a string: >>> s = '06897' >>> s[2] '8'
You can also turn each character into an integer, in various ways: >>> [int(c) for c in s] [0, 6, 8, 9, 7] >>> map(int, s) [0, 6, 8, 9, 7] Jeff
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