I have a series of tuples of the form ('Name', Number), and I would like to split them into two columns, one being the name, the other being the number.
I’d like to end up with something like this:
Tuple                   Name          Number
('Scott Smith', 56)     Scott Smith   56
('Anna Frank', 100)     Anna Frank    100
('Seth Morris', 32)     Seth Morris   32
I’ve tried a few iterations of splitting strings, applying a lambda function, etc, and can’t seem to get this simple process right.
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Answer
Construct a new dataframe and assign back to dataframe
sample df:
               Tuple
0  (Scott Smith, 56)
1  (Anna Frank, 100)
2  (Seth Morris, 32)
df_final = df.assign(**pd.DataFrame(df.Tuple.tolist(), columns=['Name','Number']))
Out[170]:
               Tuple         Name  Number
0  (Scott Smith, 56)  Scott Smith      56
1  (Anna Frank, 100)   Anna Frank     100
2  (Seth Morris, 32)  Seth Morris      32