Python character list to rows

pycharacterlist_to_rows.R

library(dplyr)
library(tibble)
library(stringr)
library(tidyr)
py_list_vec <- c('["foo", "bar", "baz"]', '["test1", "tst2"]', '["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]')
df <- tibble::tibble(id = c(1, 2, 3), x = py_list_vec)

df %>% 
  dplyr::mutate(x = stringr::str_replace(x, '\\[', "")) %>% 
  dplyr::mutate(x = stringr::str_replace(x, '\\]', "")) %>% 
  tidyr::separate_rows(x, sep = ",")