将'object'类型的dataframe列转换为类型列表

Question

Trying to convert the object type column of a dataframe into a list of dicts as it actually needs to be.

print df['A'].dtype
object

print df['A'][:1]
[{"at": "con", "c": 47}, {"at": "cli", "z": 47}, {"at": "cks", "d": 5}]

Is it possible to retrieve df['A'] as a list of dicts as dicts ? Any help highly appreciated.

Answer 1

use json

import json

df.A.apply(json.loads)

0    [{u'c': 47, u'at': u'con'}, {u'z': 47, u'at': ...
1    [{u'c': 47, u'at': u'con'}, {u'z': 47, u'at': ...
2    [{u'c': 47, u'at': u'con'}, {u'z': 47, u'at': ...
3    [{u'c': 47, u'at': u'con'}, {u'z': 47, u'at': ...
4    [{u'c': 47, u'at': u'con'}, {u'z': 47, u'at': ...
5    [{u'c': 47, u'at': u'con'}, {u'z': 47, u'at': ...
Name: A, dtype: object

Setup

df = pd.DataFrame([
        '[{"at": "con", "c": 47}, {"at": "cli", "z": 47}, {"at": "cks", "d": 5}]',
        '[{"at": "con", "c": 47}, {"at": "cli", "z": 47}, {"at": "cks", "d": 5}]',
        '[{"at": "con", "c": 47}, {"at": "cli", "z": 47}, {"at": "cks", "d": 5}]',
        '[{"at": "con", "c": 47}, {"at": "cli", "z": 47}, {"at": "cks", "d": 5}]',
        '[{"at": "con", "c": 47}, {"at": "cli", "z": 47}, {"at": "cks", "d": 5}]',
        '[{"at": "con", "c": 47}, {"at": "cli", "z": 47}, {"at": "cks", "d": 5}]',
    ],
    columns=['A'])