Pandas - Writing an excel file containing unicode - IllegalCharacterError

Question

I have the following code:

import pandas as pd

x = [u\'string with some unicode: \\x16\']
df = pd.DataFrame(x)

If I try to write this datafram

Answer 1

The same problem happened to me. I solved it as follows:

First, install python package xlsxwriter:

pip install xlsxwriter

Second, replace the default engine 'openpyxl' with 'xlsxwriter':

df.to_excel("test.xlsx", engine='xlsxwriter')