title: How do I convert coordinates in WKT format to columns of Latitude and Longitude
body: <p>I have extracted co-ordinates data from Twitter. The points I got are in the WKT format. I want to split them into two columns of Latitude and Longitude.
  The format of the coordinates is</p>
  <pre><code>{'type': 'Point', 'coordinates': [77.58168, 12.8952]}
  {'type': 'Point', 'coordinates': [77.64363, 12.9739]}
  {'type': 'Point', 'coordinates': [75.9372318, 12.44627712]}
  {'type': 'Point', 'coordinates': [77.5945627, 12.9715987]}
  {'type': 'Point', 'coordinates': [77.53584257, 13.05144109]}
  {'type': 'Point', 'coordinates': [77.5945627, 12.9715987]}
  {'type': 'Point', 'coordinates': [77.58721, 12.96643]}
  </code></pre>
  <p>I removed all the punctuations and unwanted text using str.replace</p>
  <pre><code>df['coordinates'] = df.coordinates.str.replace('type,?' , '')
  df['coordinates'] = df.coordinates.str.replace('Point,?' , '')
  df['coordinates'] = df.coordinates.str.replace('coordinates,?' , '')
  df['coordinates'] = df.coordinates.str.replace('{,?' , '')
  df['coordinates'] = df.coordinates.str.replace(',,?' , '')
  df['coordinates'] = df.coordinates.str.replace(':,?' , '')
  df['coordinates'] = df.coordinates.str.replace('],?' , '')
  df['coordinates'] = df.coordinates.str.replace(',?' , '')
  df['coordinates'] = df.coordinates.str.replace('},?' , '')
  df['coordinates'] = df.coordinates.str.replace(&quot;'',?&quot; , &quot;&quot;)
  </code></pre>
  <p>I tried to split the column using</p>
  <pre><code>df = pd.DataFrame(df.coordinates.str.split(' ',1).tolist(),
                               columns = ['Long','Lat'])
  </code></pre>
  <p>But it's not working.
  Please let me know what can be done to convert WKT to Columns of Co-ordinates</p>