pandas - convert string into list of strings

Question

I have this \'file.csv\' file to read with pandas:

Title|Tags
T1|\"[Tag1,Tag2]\"
T1|\"[Tag1,Tag2,Tag3]\"
T2|\"[Tag3,Tag1]\"

using

Answer 1

You can split the string manually:

>>> df['Tags'] = df.Tags.apply(lambda x: x[1:-1].split(','))
>>> df.Tags[0]
['Tag1', 'Tag2']