How to read a column of csv as dtype list using pandas?

Question

I have a csv file with 3 columns, wherein each row of Column 3 has list of values in it. As you can see from the following table structure

Col1,Col2,Col3
1,a         


        

Answer 1

Adding a replace to Cunninghams answer:

df = pd.read_csv("in.csv",converters={"Col3": lambda x: x.strip("[]").replace("'","").split(", ")})

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