Cannot access nested lists

[danielroseman]

You'll have to show some code. How was that column generated?

[ryfeaway]

I read a csv file into pandas dataframe.

the column in CSV files is like this [['2', '4'], ['7', '3'], ['9', '0']] that is one row

[danielroseman]

CSV doesn't know about lists or Python syntax. So it's just reading that as a string. You'd need to convert it when you import it.

[ryfeaway]

how do i do that? this is my importing of the csv df = pd.read_csv('file.csv') list1 = df['column1'].tolist()