How do you read in a dataframe with lists using pd.read_clipboard?

Question

Here\'s some data from another question:

                          positive                 negative          neutral
1   [marvel, moral, bold, destiny]              


        

Answer 1

I did it this way:

df = pd.read_clipboard(sep='\s{2,}', engine='python')
df = df.apply(lambda x: x.str.replace(r'[\[\]]*', '').str.split(',\s*', expand=False))

PS i'm sure - there must be a better way to do that...