Pandas Series of lists to one series

Here’s a simple method using only pandas functions:

import pandas as pd

s = pd.Series([
    ['slim', 'waist', 'man'],
    ['slim', 'waistline'],
    ['santa']])

Then

s.apply(pd.Series).stack().reset_index(drop=True)

gives the desired output. In some cases you might want to save the original index and add a second level to index the nested elements, e.g.

0  0         slim
   1        waist
   2          man
1  0         slim
   1    waistline
2  0        santa

If this is what you want, just omit .reset_index(drop=True) from the chain.