'how to get access to a list of items in a cell in pandas

I have a data frame in pandas including several columns, I need to get access to the one cell which contains a list of items, how would it be possible? (e.g. how to get access to Match elements in the following example)

ID   Match                               
1   (word1,,,)                           
2   (word2,,,),(word1)
3   (word2,,,),(word1),(word3,,,)


Solution 1:[1]

Leveraging the above answer, my problem is that I also had a column with a list.

if your table looks something like

Idx Words 1 ['word1', 'word2'] 2 ['word2', 'word3', 'word4']

and you want all the rows where the word "word2" exists

    df_result = df_words[ df_words['Words'].str[0] == 'word1']

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Solution 1 QuentinJS