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

for writing a data frame containing unicode characters to multiple sheets in a single excel file below code can be helpful:

%pip install xlsxwriter
from pandas import ExcelWriter
import xlsxwriter
writer = ExcelWriter('notes.xlsx')
for key in dict_df:
        data[key].to_excel(writer, key,index=False,engine='xlsxwriter')
writer.save()