Put a set of characters into list in python : <p>Essentially I want to put characters inside a list so I can make the for loop work.</p>

<p>Example characters (supposedly listed individually vertically. not like this showing as one line)
N/A
N/A
None
Test
Dev</p>

<p>I want to put these characters into a list like below
a = [N/A, N/A, None, Test, Dev]</p>

<p>Reason is when I use for loop into these characters (let's say there are all inside "test_report". For loop is not working because it is reading the "test_report" as like this:</p>

<pre><code>N
/
A

N
/
A

N
o
n
e
</code></pre>

<pre><code>count = 0
for i in test_report:
    if i == "Test":
         count += 1
return count
</code></pre>
