This is my dataframe:
date ids 0 2011-04-23 [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,... 1 2011-04-24 [0,
Maybe more dense:
df['ids'] = [[] if type(x) != list else x for x in df['ids']]