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 convert the string to a list using strip and split.

df_out = df.assign(Tags=df.Tags.str.strip('[]').str.split(','))

df_out.Tags[0][0]

Output:

'Tag1'