convert string to list literal_eval python code example

Example: string list into list pandas

import ast 

# initializing string representation of a list 
ini_list = "[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]"
  
# Converting string to list 
res = ast.literal_eval(ini_list) 
  
# printing final result and its type 
print ("final list", res) 
print (type(res))