Splitting dictionary/list inside a Pandas Column into Separate Columns

Question

I have data saved in a postgreSQL database. I am querying this data using Python2.7 and turning it into a Pandas DataFrame. However, the last column of this dat

Answer 1

my_df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(my_dict, orient='index', columns=['my_col'])

.. would have parsed the dict properly (putting each dict key into a separate df column, and key values into df rows), so the dicts would not get squashed into a single column in the first place.