[Stack Overflow] Split column in a Dask Dataframe into n number of columns

[github-actions[bot]]

In a column in a Dask Dataframe, I have strings like this:

column_name_1column_name_2a^b^cje^f^gk^lh^im

I need to split these strings into columns in the same data frame, like this

column_name_1column_name_2column_name_1_1column_name_1…

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71493347/split-column-in-a-dask-dataframe-into-n-number-of-columns

[scharlottej13]

Docs for https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/generated/dask.dataframe.Series.str.split.html are just copied from pandas and could do a much better job of explaining the limitations. Or, maybe we could implement n=-1 w/ expand=True?

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