How to explode a list inside a Dataframe cell into separate rows

Question

I\'m looking to turn a pandas cell containing a list into rows for each of those values.

So, take this:

If I\'d like to unpack and stack the value

Answer 1

Extending Oleg's .iloc answer to automatically flatten all list-columns:

def extend_iloc(df):
    cols_to_flatten = [colname for colname in df.columns if 
    isinstance(df.iloc[0][colname], list)]
    # Row numbers to repeat 
    lens = df[cols_to_flatten[0]].apply(len)
    vals = range(df.shape[0])
    ilocations = np.repeat(vals, lens)
    # Replicate rows and add flattened column of lists
    with_idxs = [(i, c) for (i, c) in enumerate(df.columns) if c not in cols_to_flatten]
    col_idxs = list(zip(*with_idxs)[0])
    new_df = df.iloc[ilocations, col_idxs].copy()

    # Flatten columns of lists
    for col_target in cols_to_flatten:
        col_flat = [item for sublist in df[col_target] for item in sublist]
        new_df[col_target] = col_flat

    return new_df

This assumes that each list-column has equal list length.