How to break the line into separate characters?

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question@mail.ru · 01.01.1970 03:00

How to break the line into separate characters?

Hello, please help with the following task: there is a line

  Data =       how to divide it into separate characters? I understand that  data.split () , but it is just not clear that in  split ()  write. Thanks in advance. 
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