Have to split dataframe column based on length value in another column

Question

I have pandas dataframe df in below format

Title                                               
ABCABCABC   
ABCDABCDABCD                            
ABCDEABCDEABCDE             
ABEABEABE                           

I want to split the Title column into 3 equal parts.

Expected output:

Title1            Title2          Title3
ABC                ABC             ABC
ABCD               ABCD            ABCD 
ABCDE              ABCDE           ABCDE
ABE                ABE             ABE

please help me know how to do it.

I tried to get length, but not sure how to split based on length value.

  df['len'] = df.Title.str.len()

Answer 1

Using the builtin textwrap module.

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import textwrap

pd.DataFrame(
  [textwrap.wrap(el, len(el)//3) for el in df['Title']]
).add_prefix('Title')

  Title0 Title1 Title2
0    ABC    ABC    ABC
1   ABCD   ABCD   ABCD
2  ABCDE  ABCDE  ABCDE
3    ABE    ABE    ABE

Answer 2

Here is one way:

pd.DataFrame([np.split(np.array(list(i)),3) for i in df.Title]).applymap(''.join)

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       0      1      2
0    ABC    ABC    ABC
1   ABCD   ABCD   ABCD
2  ABCDE  ABCDE  ABCDE
3    ABE    ABE    ABE