Split string in pandas dataframe into individual columns – no delimiter
Question:
I have a pandas dataframe df and one of the columns df['x'] contains strings of length 100, each string of the form 'ABBABBBABBAABAABABBAAABAAAA...'
How would I go about splitting this 1 column into 100 different columns, each containing only 1 character from the original string?
Answers:
You can use str.split:
df['x'].str.split('',expand=True).iloc[:,1:-1]
or str.extractall with unstack:
df['x'].str.extractall('(.)')[0].unstack()
I have a pandas dataframe df and one of the columns df['x'] contains strings of length 100, each string of the form 'ABBABBBABBAABAABABBAAABAAAA...'
How would I go about splitting this 1 column into 100 different columns, each containing only 1 character from the original string?
You can use str.split:
df['x'].str.split('',expand=True).iloc[:,1:-1]
or str.extractall with unstack:
df['x'].str.extractall('(.)')[0].unstack()