How to turn a number into a list?

Question

Python

a = 8299
I need this number to be in the list I did not find an adequate method on the Internet [8, 2, 9, 9]

Answer 1

Here
is Option 1:

a = 8299
a = str(a)
spicoc = list(a)
print(spicoc) #['8', '2', '9', '9']

Option 2:

a = 8299
a = str(a)
spisoc = []
for i in a :
  spisoc.append(int(i))  # int  если нужно что бы элемент сразу был числом
print(spisoc)# [8, 2, 9, 9]