Reading csv containing a list in Pandas

Question

I\'m trying to read this csv into pandas

HK,\"[u\'5328.1\', u\'5329.3\', \'2013-12-27 13:58:57.973614\']\"
HK,\"[u\'5328.1\', u\'5329.3\', \'2013-12-27 13:5         


        

Answer 1

use .strip() in python.

with open(csvfile, 'r')as infile:
    reader = csv.reader(infile)
    for row in reader:
        col1 = row[0]
        col2 = row[1:].strip("[]")