On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:50 am, Lew Pitcher wrote: > David Shi wrote: > >> In the data set, pound sign escape appears: >> u'price_currency': u'\xa3', u'price_formatted': u'\xa3525,000',
That looks like David is using Python 2. >> When using table.to_csv after importing pandas as pd, an error message >> persists as follows: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode >> character u'\xa3' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) > > There is no "pound sign" in ASCII[1]. Try changing your target encoding to > something other than ASCII. Please don't encourage the use of old legacy encodings. In 2017, unless you are reading from old legacy files created using a non-Unicode encoding, you should just use UTF-8. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
