How to split a column into three columns in pandas

Question

I have a data frame as shown below

ID  Name     Address
1   Kohli    Country: India; State: Delhi; Sector: SE25
2   Sachin   Country: India; State: Mumbai; Secto         


        

Answer 1

You are almost there

cols = ['ZONE', 'State', 'Sector']
df[cols] = pd.DataFrame(df['ADDRESS'].str.split('; ',2).tolist(),
                                   columns = cols)

for col in cols:
    df[col] = df[col].str.split(': ').apply(lambda x:x[1])