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Was just going to add I see exactly the same behaviour with pandas 2.2.1. I'll have a crack at rephrasing this without root 

@martindurant https://github.com/intake/awkward-pandas/pull/46 looks very relevant, but I'm not really sure how to apply it to my dataframe to enable the explosion

Interesting. This works fine (with pandas 2.2.1) if I create the dataframe of awkward arrays myself: 

But the difference is that `pt` now gets a dtype `object` instead of `awkward`

Very sorry to ask a potentially dump question, @martindurant , but how do I install from that branch? Would that be something like: ``` pip install git+https://github.com/douglasdavis/awkward-pandas/tree/dev-explode ``` ?

OK I figured out how to do it (pip install git+https://github.com/douglasdavis/awkward-pandas@dev-explode), and here is the result! 

Thanks a lot for the pointers, @martindurant !!!