It's probably a silly thing but I can't seem to correctly convert a pandas series originally got from an excel sheet to a list.
dfCI is created by importing data from an excel sheet and looks like this:
tab var val
MsrData sortfield DetailID
MsrData strow 4
MsrData inputneeded "MeasDescriptionTest", "SiteLocTest", "SavingsCalcsProvided","BiMonthlyTest"
# get list of cols for which input is needed
cols = dfCI[((dfCI['var'] == 'inputneeded') & (dfCI['tab'] == 'MsrData'))]['val'].values.tolist()
print(cols)
>> ['"MeasDescriptionTest", "SiteLocTest", "SavingsCalcsProvided", "BiMonthlyTest"']
# replace null text with text
invalid = 'Input Needed'
for col in cols:
dfMSR[col] = np.where((dfMSR[col].isnull()), invalid, dfMSR[col])
However the second set of (single) quotes added when I converted cols from series to list, makes all the columns a single value so that
col = '"MeasDescriptionTest", "SiteLocTest", "SavingsCalcsProvided", "BiMonthlyTest"'
The desired output for cols is
cols = ["MeasDescriptionTest", "SiteLocTest", "SavingsCalcsProvided", "BiMonthlyTest"]
What am I doing wrong?
Once you've got col, you can convert it to your expected output:
In [1109]: col = '"MeasDescriptionTest", "SiteLocTest", "SavingsCalcsProvided", "BiMonthlyTest"'
In [1114]: cols = [i.strip() for i in col.replace('"', '').split(',')]
In [1115]: cols
Out[1115]: ['MeasDescriptionTest', 'SiteLocTest', 'SavingsCalcsProvided', 'BiMonthlyTest']