diff between list() and split().py

s="the sky is blue"
s=s.split()
"""
output:
['the', 'sky', 'is', 'blue']  
"""
s=list(s)
"""
output:
['t', 'h', 'e', ' ', 's', 'k', 'y', ' ', 'i', 's', ' ', 'b', 'l', 'u', 'e']
"""