I've got a column within a df labelled a. It contains a list of int values. I want to return if they are consecutive or not. I can do it passing in a single list but I want to iterate over each row. df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [[0,2], [9,11,12], [0,1,2], [10,11,13]]}) def cons(L): return all(n-i == L[0] for i,n in enumerate(L)) print(cons(df['a'][0])) # works df['cons'] = df['a'].apply(cons, axis=1) # error intended: a cons 0 [0, 2] False 1 [9, 11, 12] False 2 [0, 1, 2] True 3 [10, 11, 13] False Continue reading...