Split (explode) pandas dataframe string entry to separate rows

Question

I have a pandas dataframe in which one column of text strings contains comma-separated values. I want to split each CSV field and create a new row per entry (as

Answer 1

There is a possibility to split and explode the dataframe without changing the structure of dataframe

Split and expand data of specific columns

Input:

    var1    var2
0   a,b,c   1
1   d,e,f   2



#Get the indexes which are repetative with the split 
df['var1'] = df['var1'].str.split(',')
df = df.explode('var1')

Out:

    var1    var2
0   a   1
0   b   1
0   c   1
1   d   2
1   e   2
1   f   2

Edit-1

Split and Expand of rows for Multiple columns

Filename    RGB                                             RGB_type
0   A   [[0, 1650, 6, 39], [0, 1691, 1, 59], [50, 1402...   [r, g, b]
1   B   [[0, 1423, 16, 38], [0, 1445, 16, 46], [0, 141...   [r, g, b]

Re indexing based on the reference column and aligning the column value information with stack

df = df.reindex(df.index.repeat(df['RGB_type'].apply(len)))
df = df.groupby('Filename').apply(lambda x:x.apply(lambda y: pd.Series(y.iloc[0])))
df.reset_index(drop=True).ffill()

Out:

                Filename    RGB_type    Top 1 colour    Top 1 frequency Top 2 colour    Top 2 frequency
    Filename                            
 A  0       A   r   0   1650    6   39
    1       A   g   0   1691    1   59
    2       A   b   50  1402    49  187
 B  0       B   r   0   1423    16  38
    1       B   g   0   1445    16  46
    2       B   b   0   1419    16  39