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

df['new_column'] = df['column'].apply(lambda x: ast.literal_eval(x))

Just run the above code on the column containing list as string.