Pandas Series of lists to one series

Question

I have a Pandas Series of lists of strings:

0                           [slim, waist, man]
1                                [slim, waistline]
2                       


        

Answer 1

You can try using itertools.chain to simply flatten the lists:

In [70]: from itertools import chain
In [71]: import pandas as pnd
In [72]: s = pnd.Series([['slim', 'waist', 'man'], ['slim', 'waistline'], ['santa']])
In [73]: s
Out[73]: 
0    [slim, waist, man]
1     [slim, waistline]
2               [santa]
dtype: object
In [74]: new_s = pnd.Series(list(chain(*s.values)))
In [75]: new_s
Out[75]: 
0         slim
1        waist
2          man
3         slim
4    waistline
5        santa
dtype: object