''' Purpose: do some functions produces lists from a string
'''

def separate( s ) :
    ''' Returns a new list where each element in the list corresponds to a
        character of s
    '''

    pass

def ints( ns ) :
    ''' Returns list of integers corresponding to the integer substrings in ns.
    '''

    pass
        
def parse_phone_string( pn ) :
    ''' Returns a three-element integer list for string phone # pn:
           1st element: pn area code
           2nd element: pn prefix
           3rd element: pn line number
    '''

    pass