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

Use this to remove any error that you might be getting. You can save to excel post this.

df = df.applymap(lambda x: x.encode('unicode_escape').
                 decode('utf-8') if isinstance(x, str) else x)