There are three built-in functions in Python : lists, tuples, and strings. The three functions, str (), tuple (), and list (), convert to each other using the following example: >>> s = ‘123456’ >>> list(s) [‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘6’] >>> tuple(s) (‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘6’) >>> tuple(list(s)) (‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘6’) >>> list(tuple(s)) [‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘6’] >>> “”.join(tuple(s))