Answers for "how to get string list interpreted as list in python"

string list into list pandas

import ast 

# initializing string representation of a list 
ini_list = "[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]"
  
# Converting string to list 
res = ast.literal_eval(ini_list) 
  
# printing final result and its type 
print ("final list", res) 
print (type(res))

convert string to list python

# To split the string at every character use the list() function
word = 'abc'
L = list(word)
L
# Output:
# ['a', 'b', 'c']

# To split the string at a specific character use the split() function
word = 'a,b,c'
L = word.split(',')
L
# Output:
# ['a', 'b', 'c']